Word: 100a
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saturday, and he was not supposed to be working, but he stopped at the North American plant to turn in some test-flight reports. Just as Smith headed toward his battered Mercury to go home, Dispatcher Bob Gallahue asked him to flight-test a new F-100A jet fighter so that it could be delivered to the Air Force. Pilot Smith put on his flying gear, got into the cockpit, checked instruments and controls. He noticed that the fore-and-aft stick movement, which raises or lowers the nose of the aircraft in flight, was slightly stiff, but he thought...
Beowulf rides again in William Alfred's "Early English Literature," English 100a, meeting in Longfellow 110. Following Anglo-Saxon writing from 540 to 1054, Alfred will emphasize poetry and early conceptions of the hero. No knowledge of Old English is required...