Word: arcs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...careers in U. S. journalism, Dorothy Thompson knocked off work for a month and hopped a plane for California, turning down all proffered honors and showed a plump pair of legs to the millions of women who think of her as something between a Cassandra and a Joan of Arc...
...best-selling Fashion Is Spinach, Elizabeth Hawes, petite, snip-witted, 36-year-old Manhattan dress designer, showed a chic hand with the muckrake as well as a sound knowledge of women's clothes. This time she plays Joan of Arc to clothesbound men. Few years ago Elizabeth Hawes discovered that clothes make the man miserable. She designed some collarless, tieless, pressless, lightweight, colorful models. Men nudged, pointed, but did not buy. In Men Can Take It, Miss Hawes relates with bright disgust what was wrong...
...recommended extending beyond 1946 to 1960), the Navy has pictured Guam, with its potentially fine harbor of Apra, as a likely Pacific outpost. If heavily fortified it would move the U. S. first line of Pacific defense just that much farther away from the U. S. mainland, into an arc far outside of the Alaska-Hawaii-Samoa defense line (see map). The Navy conceives that its duty is to do its fighting as far from the mainland as possible. It also knows that from Guam it could cooperate handily with the seapower of the likeliest U. S. ally, Great Britain...
Swinging swiftly in a wide arc he squared away for a landing, let down his landing gear. Then came some more of the sort of bad luck that has dogged new Army ships of late. As Pilot Kelsey suddenly realized that he was falling short, he opened his throttles to drag into the field. Without so much as a cough his left engine died. Plowing her wheels through a tree, the XP-38, with right engine throttled, slammed into the sand bunker of a golf course, came to a stop with her right wing torn off, her props hopelessly snaggled...
...return for these riches, mountainous Chile pays a steep price. Situated at one end of the great Pacific earthquake arc* that sweeps around from Borneo and the Philippines, through Japan, Alaska, the U. S. Pacific Coast and down through central and western South America to the Cape, Chile shares honors with Japan as the shakiest region on earth. Of 9,000 big & little quakes & tremors recorded every year, fully 21% occur in Chile. Seismic observers estimate that during the past three centuries Chile has had on the average a serious quake every three years. Last week she was hit again...