Word: heights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into outer space, Lewis pointed out, requires an initial speed of 6.95 miles a second (25,020 m.p.h.). This requirement cannot be dodged by running the rocket motor slowly over a long period; that would only waste energy by forcing the ship to carry heavy fuel to a greater height...
...best individual matches of the afternoon appear to be the 145 and 155-pound contests. Smith's opponent at 145 will have a decisive height advantage and is heavy through the shoulders, but he comes up against a man who knows a great deal about wrestling. If Carter can stay with John Hansen, another New England freshman champion, the 136-pound fight should be an interesting...
When a squash ball is dropped from a height of 100 inches on a steel plate, it will rebound 32 inches. This is true only when the temperature is at 70 degrees Faherenheit...
...battle of Facts v. Ideas, Educator Hutchins had taken the side of ideas. This did not mean that he rejected facts. This week he marked his 20th anniversary at Chicago, the university had reached a height in science (i.e., the pursuit of facts) such as it had never achieved before. But Hutchins thoroughly intended that students at Chicago would be equipped to make a sound search for the truth about the facts...
...dwarf epithet was interesting; Tito's height of 5 feet 7½ inches (average for southern Slavs) is on record in London at Madame Tussaud's Waxworks-whence he sent it along with one of his fancy uniforms to drape his ozocerite likeness. The Literary Gazette's own Joseph Stalin in 1936 had refused to give Tussaud's any data, and they had mistakenly reconstructed...