Word: tailwind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yesterday's race, postponed from Friday when Lowell broke an oar in a reversion to tactics first popularized by Quintus Fabius Maximus '00, was clocked at the respectable time of 4:15, sans tailwind...
...rollicking tailwind acted the part of an outboard motor as the first act of the Interhouse crew competition yesterday afternoon on a slect-gray, sun-washed Charles River...
...obstacles to be overcome. 1) Watching Laughton laugh, and 2) watching Laughton eat. However, some people may even enjoy the latter; at least some did when the picture first appeared in the Thirties. In the seenes that do not show 1) and 2), there's a fairly steady tailwind to keep you going
Supersonic speeds (above 750 m.p.h.) are farther around the flying corner than many people think. On Jan. 26, a P-80 Shooting Star, in a widely publicized flight, roared from California to New York at about 584 m.p.h. But its speed was inflated by a whooping, high-altitude tailwind. Last week, the Army Air Forces announced the official record for a closed, 100-kilometer course-only 495 m.p.h...
...smaller As long as two years ago, our management realized (between naps) that we could make a quick fast bulge in sales and profits by marketing a ball pen. You don't have to be the seventh son of a seventh son to sell things in a tailwind market, even a pen which has been described as "the only pen that will make eight copies and no original." If & when Parker brings out a ball pen it won't resemble anything now on the market...