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Overshadowed by this game, Winthrop won a thriller of its own on the adjacent field with two first half scores. The Puritans, however, had a withstand two Funster drives in the closing minutes of play, one of which ended...
...basis of this one-man boom is a paraffin-like substance which its chief producers, DuPont and Bakelite, call, respectively, polythene and polyethylene. Tupper's all-important contribution is a process which overcomes the material's tendency to split, makes it tough enough to withstand almost anything except knife cuts' and near-boiling water...
Heavyweight. Long planned (TIME, July 8, 1946), the bathyscaphe is now about completed in Belgium. Cast as two steel hemispheres (see cut), it is 6½ feet in outside diameter. The walls are 3½ inches thick at their thinnest point. The professor thinks that they will withstand nearly 6,000 pounds of pressure per square inch-the pressure he expects to find more than 12,000 feet below the surface...
...jaded voyagers, the Queen Mary was still a marvel of naval architecture. From her straight, businesslike stem to her bulging cruiser stern the Queen represents a blending of many ancient and modern arts. Her builders had to wrestle with the problem of constructing a hull of titan strength to withstand almost unimaginable strains as the seas pass under her 1,020 feet, lifting her first by the bow, then amidships, then astern. The propulsion engineers used the power of 50 locomotives to drive the four screws, each 20 feet across and weighing 35 tons, which are, nevertheless, so delicately mounted...
Isolated groups of men in Spitsbergen and Greenland, Burnet points out, generally withstand the arctic winter without illness but summer's first ship brings a violent epidemic of colds. Doctors think that vulnerable victims catch it from carriers who are immune through constant exposure. Even great flu epidemics like the 1918 pandemic, says Burnet, attack only a vulnerable minority of the population. And most flu epidemics quickly run their course, leaving the population immune, at least temporarily, to another epidemic...