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Mill St. runs between Lowell and Winthrop Houses; Holyoke St. is in front of the Indoor Athletic Building; and Riverside Drive runs parallel to Memorial Dive from Winthrop to Leverett House...
...confused with the explosive bang made by a jet pulling out of a supersonic dive. This is caused by a shock wave which is intensified during the turn and then detaches itself from the wing and slams down to the ground...
...modern military airplane carries a frightening passenger. The name is G.* During steady, level flights, G keeps still as a mouse, but when the plane makes a turn or pulls out of a dive, G takes charge. Every part of the pilot's body grows unnaturally heavy. His cheeks sag; his jaw drops open; the blood rushes out of his brain; his guts crowd into his belly. Too many Gs can black a man out, cripple him or even kill him. Air battles of the future, fought above the speed of sound, will be won by pilots equipped...
...falls again, and thinks she has stripped her moral gears for keeps. At this logical jumping-off place for a French bedroom farce, Novelist Vincent Sheean, writing with perfect seriousness, has his heroine leap into Indian mysticism. In Sheean's handling, it is as crashingly pointless as a dive into an empty swimming pool...
...wish to satisfy yourself personally on this matter, you may come down here Monday at five p.m. (27 May) and rock and dive to your heart's content. Please, however, do not send a deputy who will only say that he is acting under your orders and put on a pained expression Pained expressions take all the fun out of things, especially when not terribly sincere. And, after all, why should your deputies have all the fun, rocking and diving, while you slave away at your desk over letters like this? It may be possible for me to invite some...