Word: bows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part of the Lucky Bag. In all seriousness, we do welcome you as you begin your cruise here aboard the Harvard. If, in any way, we can give you advice or help you with your work, or even take your girl out when you are restricted for failing to bow every time you meet a Junior Officer, please feel free to supplicate our succor...
...mind and body and who yet have no fear of draft boards. We saw them wearing short pants on the way to classes the other day. They were probably ex-quiz kids. They couldn't have been trying to keep cool for one were a coat, stiff collar and bow tie. We hesitated to question them on this oddity for they seemed so confident, even in this garb. Nevertheless, we feel sure that they will become of age to wear knickerbockers by next fall...
...argued that color prejudice among his U.S. guests justified his action. Last week the court awarded Constantine five guineas ($21), the maximum permitted under British law for breach of contract.' But the money was immaterial to Leary Constantine. He was satisfied with the ruling that Britons should not bow to U.S. prejudices...
Bullets and airplanes are similarly impeded. When they hit air at high speed, the air bunches up in front of them like the hill of water against a ship's bow. The compression creates "shock waves"-turbulent air formations whose impact enormously increases air drag. A bullet can be driven through these waves by explosive power, but no one has yet designed an airplane engine and propeller combination powerful enough to overcome them...
...finest shot of all was made by U.S. Signal Corps Sergeant Dick Taylor (who, though wounded later, kept at his job) from a landing barge, with his camera focused on the bow. The barge is under fire. The men in it, crouched low, show a physical, animal restlessness more revealing-and far more complex-than any manifestation of pure fear. Beyond the bow of the barge, wavering with the motion of the water, and terrifyingly close, loom the upper floors of bleak Norman seaside houses. The barge opens its mouth. Not in a neat, eager, clattering rush as people have...