Word: porous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity basketball team parlayed poor shooting,k sloppy passing, and a porous defense into a 77-71 loss to Wesleyan last night at the IAB. Although the Crimson produced several stretches of good basketball, including a sensational rally early in the second half, the team could not match the Cardinals' consistency...
After ham and eggs one night last week, Air Force Captain Joe Kittinger, 31, drove up to a 2 a.m. rendezvous in the clear, cold New Mexico desert and methodically climbed into one of the strangest costumes ever worn by man. First he put on two suits of insulated, porous underwear, then a partial-pressure suit, heavy, quilted long underwear, standard Air Force flying suit, heavy G.I. socks, electrically heated socks, heavy woolen socks, rubberized boots (called Li'l Abners), nylon gloves, high-altitude pressure gloves, electrically heated flying gloves, glass-faced space helmet...
Still, the fact remains: Centre's win was not a shocking reversal of form. Although the Praying Colonels had dropped a 31-14 decision to the Crimson a year earlier, they had remedied their main defect--a porous line. In 1921, Centre had already defeated Clemson, 14 to 7, V.P.I., 14 to 0, St. Xavier, 28 to 6, and Transylvania, by the whopping margin...
...lungs as simply breathing into them after clearing the mouth, throat and windpipe of obstructions. For rescuers who cannot stomach direct contact with a person who may be dead, a plastic tube is already on the market. Or, says the Red Cross, they can breathe through a porous cloth...
What the plastics industry is after is a porous bag that 1) will not cling to the face, 2) will not generate static electricity. Some manufacturers have turned to making combination plastic and paper bags, while other key producers, such as National Distillers' Kordite Corp., are returning to the heavier, more expensive plastic they first used to make bags three years ago. They believe that heavier-gauge bags are less dangerous because they do not cling to the skin as readily. In the search for a safer product. Technical Tape Corp., New Rochelle, N.Y., a major producer of plastic...