Word: impactions
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...then, with your feet together and your eyes on the horizon, you hit the ground. Upon impact, you collapse and roll...
Miss Boron will be disappointed if she expects her addled theory to have the impact Hans David's did when he hit on a solution to the structure of Bach's Musical Offering. Her "dramatic exegesis" is so demonstrably absurd on dozens of grounds that there is no point in embarking on a full-scale refutation here (or anywhere...
...years, and the cut in stock margins was a natural response by the Federal Reserve Board to the decline in stock prices and to the conviction that inflation is no longer a danger. Neither action is likely to provide much immediate stimulus to business activity, but the long-run impact of both moves should be good, and in the short run they should help shore up public confidence...
Instrument packages from high-flying rockets are sometimes dropped by parachute, and to keep them from drifting out of reach, Sandia Corp. is developing a homing parachute controlled by a small radio. When the radio locates the proper impact area, air is automatically spilled from the proper segment of the parachute to make it slant toward a convenient landing...
...missiles become more sophisticated, smaller pieces become more important to find; the White Sands recovery force is always alert for bright ideas that will help them find their quarry. One promising trick is to station seven or eight men with powerful telescopic theodolites on the edges of the impact area. They note the direction of the dust cloud raised by missile impact; then computation gives an accurate...