Word: comets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freeloaders, stuffed them breathlessly aboard a jet Comet IV, was off from London with a roar, landing at Idlewild, after breasting headwinds, in ten hours...
BRITISH JET SERVICE to U.S. is expected to start in mid-November with BOAC Comet IVs, about three weeks after Pan Am plans flights to Europe with Boeing 707s...
...where Jewel's Reward was faltering but Tim Tarn was steadily closing on Lincoln Road. At the wire, it was Tim Tarn by half a length. Lincoln Road, hanging on gamely, was second. Noureddin, a fast-finishing long shot, was third. Silky was a sad twelfth. The red comet from California had fizzled out in the gaudy glare of the Derby. The hangover from the carnival still belonged to a brief, bright legend; the real horse race and the regal $118,000 went to the best horse...
...beat it. We offer speed, service, safety and new planes." Real has built its fleet to 120 (v. Panagra's 19), and most of the other lines have big plans. The state-owned Argentine Airline is wrapping up a $28 million deal for six de Havilland Comet 4 pure jets to start 13-hour service between Buenos Aires and New York (almost a year before Panagra gets DC-8 jets on the same run). Varig has ordered French Caravelle jets; Real has bought four Convair jet 880s, will fly a route to Tokyo...
...frontiers of research in time. You can't specialize narrowly any more; biology flows into biochemistry and on into mathematics." Jerome Metzner, chairman of the school's biology department, agrees: "When you get a bright youngster and focus his interest early, the kid soars like a comet. He gets a five-to ten-year start in professional life...