Word: bend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wide & Thin. Once they began to build experimental delta wings (Convair's XF-92 was the first to fly in 1948), airplane manufacturers discovered other advantages of what the designers call "delta configuration." The strain of high-speed flight tends to bend the airframe out of line. Without adding too much weight., the triangular structure can be built stiff enough to eliminate this danger. A relatively thin wing and its short fuselage-have room for fuel tanks, landing gear and auxiliary equipment...
Vladimir Nabokov, author of "Conclusive Evidence," "Bend Sinister," and several works on Gogol will visit the College next term to teach the big General Education course in Humanities 2, according to the list of spring course changes posted in the Houses yesterdays...
Trilby at Work. In South Bend, Ind., Tribune Reporter Harry Schaudt apologized to his city editor for his scanty coverage of a Shrine dinner: he had volunteered as a subject for hypnosis, slept soundly through most of the affair...
...amazed. Monster layout with yards of track and trains. Little engine scooted by and puffed smoke in my face. Tooted whistle and disappeared into tunnel. Came out half a block away and dashed over bridge above the 20th Century Limited that was rounding the bend below. Signals blinked, tracks switched, water tower bubbled, and Limited pulled up to station. Little cart wheels out. On other track, 19th Century Limited whips by. Forgets to stop for log loader which spills logs onto track. Old 19th backs up. Little man at control panel in corner narrowly averts tragedy by switching Old 19th...
...Quick & the Dead. In South Bend, Ind., John C. Haynes, announcing the opening of his new body-building gymnasium, listed among his qualifications the fact that he is both a licensed embalmer and a funeral director...