Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students got a crash-grounding in the sort of meteorology that would be most useful in war. They learned how to predict whether the sky over a German city would be clear enough at a certain hour for high-altitude, visual bombing. Similar methods predicted days when dirty weather would protect ground troops from enemy...
...When I was twenty-seven," he begins, "the stock-market crash came. When I was twenty-eight my personal crash came. Then I guess I woke up. So, when I was almost thirty, I began to make my living from writing." Hughes had been a long time getting through college. He graduated in 1929, and had worked in a hat store, on a truck farm, in a flower shop, and as a doorman, second cook, waiter, beach-comber, bum, and seaman, on the way. In that time he was writing poems too, and a novel, Not Without Laughter, which earned...
Died. Charles Peete, 27, American Association batting champ (he hit .350 this year for the St. Louis Cardinals' Omaha farm club), his wife Nettie and their three small children; en route to Valencia, Venezuela, where Negro Centerfielder Peete was to play winter ball; in the crash of an airliner near Caracas...
Hollister is neither afraid nor ashamed to talk about the event. As he put it yesterday: "In a way, the crash was premeditated. I had got to know elevators and had become fascinated with them. Before I ever found out about the one in the Geological Museum I had made several elevator crashes in France. I wasn't a novice in the thing...
...Mountain (Paramount) is a fairly interesting attempt to combine in one picture a hit and a myth. Based on the 1953 novel by France's Henri Troyat, which in turn was suggested by a 1950 plane crash in the Alps, The Mountain tells the story of an adventure that leads its adventurers to the high places of the spiritual as well as of the physical world. The adventure is intended to represent the struggle between Good and Evil, as that struggle is lived out against a symbol that expresses both the way and the goal of life: The Mountain...