Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days ago, as he made his 31st successful landing in the remarkable plane specially designed for his remarkable feat, Chuck was able to say casually: "We've punched so many holes in that old wall, you can see 'em all over the Mojave...
Demon on the Tail. In the long-ago (to airmen) days of October 1947, the air was like a prison with invisible steel-strong walls. There seemed to be an upper limit to speed. As airplanes flew faster & faster, strange things had happened to them. Hard, unseen fists punctured their metal skins. Mysterious arms reached out of the air to wrestle with their controls. Sometimes a wartime fighter pilot, diving too fast in combat, would feel his stick freeze fast. No matter how he tried, he could not pull out of the dive. Sometimes he did not live to tell...
...students refer to themselves, with determined superiority-their next-door V.M.I. rivals are known as Brother Rats) affect a high degree of collegiate courtliness, are seldom seen without coat and tie, still abide by the strict honor system Lee set down for them over 80 years ago. Though they come from 39 different states, most are from the South, where W. & L.'s college of arts and sciences and its schools of commerce and law rank high. Unlike most Southern colleges, W. & L. refuses to indulge its athletes, provides no athletic scholarships...
Surrounding Tradition. Today, W. & L.'s first gentleman is a suave Southerner named Francis Pendleton Gaines, who arrived 19 years ago from North Carolina's Wake Forest College. President Gaines has done nothing to change the smooth flow of campus life-including the round of fraternity dances leading up to the annual Fancy Dress Ball for Washington's birthday...
...though he feels that his work is "well-nigh completed," Seymour still worries a good deal about the future of such institutions, as Yale. His chief concern is the same as it was twelve years ago-"absolute intellectual freedom . . . The Yale atmosphere must be so completely impregnated with the sense of freedom that our students going from here will serve naturally and universally as its apostles . . . We seek the truth and will endure the consequences...