Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kick the Wind. Cornell owes its uniqueness to an unlikely alliance during the civil war between two New York state legislators: Ezra Cornell, the self-taught Quaker millionaire who organized Western Union, and Andrew D. White, an urbane Yaleman and sometime history professor. White dreamed of giving New York one great land-grant college of such broad learning that it would teach everything from art to agriculture. The idea shocked conservative Easterners, who thought of college as mainly for God and Greek. But Cornell rammed it through the legislature, chipping in $500,000 and his own 300-acre farm...
...White meantime scoured Europe for top scholars, set high standards, and took such a dim view of football that he once vetoed a game in Cleveland with the edict: "I refuse to let 40 of our boys travel 400 miles merely to agitate a bag of wind...
Caouette is the most conspicuous new political phenomenon in Canada, and a man who on April 8 could wind up holding the balance of power in a nation deeply divided between Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's Conservatives and Lester Pearson's Liberals. Caouette's platform is based on the funny-money Social Credit party, which in the Depression promised a printing-press prosperity (each citizen should get a share of the national wealth-in cash...
Northrop engineers, who have run thousands of hours of wind-tunnel tests, say that once the suction is started, there is smooth, laminar flow over both top and bottom of their new wing. Up to 80% of the friction drag is eliminated-and this figure includes compensation for the drag caused by the nacelles and for the power needed to run the turbines. With drag so drastically reduced, an airplane uses much less fuel, thus can fly farther or carry more payload. The null will not have its first flight tests until next month, but Northrop is already making...
...antiworld of the so-called anti-novelists of France, the characters often seem to grope toward each other like blind men buffeted in a high wind. Time moves slowly, emotions are muted, action is rare. The prevailing mood is one of hopelessness in the face of conditions neither invited nor understood. One of the masters of the genre is Marguerite Duras, 48, whose novel The Square was a random dialogue between two strangers who meet in a park, talk endlessly and go their separate ways. Her present book has slightly more action, but it, too, is really a long interior...