Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complex dead-reckoning system that measures the airplane's speed by means of radar pulses reflected from the ground. It also measures the sideways drift caused by cross winds and keeps track of the airplane's heading during all parts of the flight. This informa tion, combined automatically by a computer, tells the pilot continuously where he is, and as a kind of extra feature, the clever "66" helps him find the fastest wind to boost him to his destination...
...dealing wtih geography. "Even Yale is building up its geography department," he notes.Knobby Sandstone, Etc. The map on the left is a small segment from Raisz's landform map of North Africa. Raisz uses special symbols for each type of land configuration, such as mountain, dendritic sandstream, dissected plateau, wind-etched limestone, knobby sandstone, lava, etc. Raisz thinks highly of this map. He tried to sell a copy of it to a student in History I62 (Westward Movement) who kept insisting he only wanted a map of the Pacific Northwest. Raisz found this hard to believe, but gave...
...trip was brief (his plane, Columbine III, made only seven stops) and frequently monopolized by chart-bearing experts, Ike came face to face with the unmistakable signs of disaster: careworn and worried farm men and women; parched, dried water holes; abandoned farm homesteads, their doors swinging open in the wind; thin, underfed cattle munching on de-spined prickly-pear cactus. As he went from farm to farm, Ike touched the weak, thin dust, crackled the dry tumbleweed between his fingers, examined with a knowing farmer's hands the bony backs and dull coats of underfed steers...
...Swedish and German, after which she dashed away to catch a My Fair Lady matinee. Next day the hectic weekend and award festivities were over, and Ingrid, unruffled despite the raucous cries of flacks, newsmen and admirers, boarded a Paris-bound plane. Would she stay longer next time? "The wind blows this way and that," she had said earlier. "I don't know what the future will hold...
...Gone With the Wind (1939) $33-51 2) The Robe (1953) 17.5; 3) The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) 12.8; 4) From Here to Eternity (1953) 12.5; 5) This Is Cinerama (1952) 12.5; 6) White Christmas (1954) 12.0; 7) Duel in the Sun (1947) 11.3; 8) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 11.3; 9) Quo Vadis (1951) 10.5; 10) Cinerama Holiday...