Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Downes: "... a first-class Hoffmann . . ." Said the Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson: ". . . stage sense . . . musical intelligence and (of all things!) an instinct for expressive coloration . . . maybe we have a real artist around...
...haired alumnus of Curtis Publishing Co., took over in 1938. Grammer soon set about converting the outfit from pulps to slicks. In two years he built Mademoiselle to 300,000 circulation, later added the other women's magazines. Today the only traces of a man's world around Street & Smith are Astounding Science Fiction and two slicks, Air Trails Pictorial and Pic Sports Quarterly. Grammer says they are thriving. But in case they should ever weaken, S. & S. would be, as usual, ready with its six-shooter...
...just want to get out. But I can't. I get sick. Then my mother brings me stuff and my daddy does, too, to make me better." Eddie, going-on-five, was gleeful when he reported : "When I'm sick my daddy has to walk around at night for me and he says 'Goddam...
When the Argentines rode out again this week, big Roberto Cavanagh was in the lineup. He had come running after a rush call to Buenos Aires. His seven goals helped sink the U.S. veterans, 15-10. Roberto was staying around for the remaining two matches...
Even flying much slower than sound, airplanes can run afoul of shock waves. The air crowding past them has to go faster to get around their curved surfaces. If, in its hurry, the air hits the speed of sound, shock waves form locally. Good design has steadily raised the speed at which an airplane can fly without trouble from local shock waves. But there is a limit: the speed of sound itself.* At this critical speed, an airplane's motion is sure to generate shock waves...