Word: darte
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Your cover portrait of Walter O'Malley will furnish me with an ideal dart board...
...Everybody plays the dart game. Everybody wins a kewpie doll. Every home needs a kewpie doll. Step right...
...inconspicuous, soft-spoken, highly nervous Chinese. Born in Shanghai some twenty-six years ago, he came to America in 1949 to study. He wasted a year in pre-med studies at Dartmouth, but graduated with a B.A. in 1955. He claims to have worked on The Dartmouth Quarterly, The Dart, and to have been president of the Dartmouth Cosmopolitan Club, where, he asserts, he "encouraged the exchange of ideas and knowledge among the races." His class poem was censored by college officials, towards many of whom he holds an undying hatred...
...glide missile, Eggers says, should be shaped rather like a child's paper dart (see cut). The slim conical body should have a blunt point, which does not get as hot at hypervelocity as a sharp point does. The leading edges of the wings and fins should be blunt too. This shape should radiate away enough frictional heat to keep the temperature of its skin below the softening point...
Into that cloud may come "a sudden stirring with no forewarning, instantly springing toward God as a spark from a coal." Still higher than the experience of this "sharp dart of longing love" is God's "beam of ghostly light," but of this the author forbears to speak...