Word: dove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there's more conscientious work across the Common, but less originality. Classroom reaction is slower, and a challenging bluebook slams a section man's ideas far less often. There's an old story for that: the lecturer got so darn sick of the plodding, noting, reactionless class that he dove off into a fantastic peroration. His class ended with fancy flying far from fact in a completely imaginative vein. And the Radcliffe students calmly took down every word. But, as Miss Comstock points out, Radcliffe need not worry about its academic reputation, despite the girl who wondered to her professor...
...industrial education. It is one of the foremost attempts of any kind, however, on the part of an educational institution to create a well informed labor group. Highly praiseworthy for this reason, the program is a great stride along the path that must be followed if the white dove is ever to be seen flying over industry. Realistically aware of conditions that exist, Dean Donald K. David of the Business School said that a primary consideration in the post-war period must be the creation of an educated and enlightened management and labor group, in order that the nation...
...asked if he'd had a hit. 'No, dammit,' he said, 'when we took off there was a twenty-knot wind blowing, but when I got over the Ryuzyo I figured it had dropped to fifteen knots, so I pushed over and dove, allowing for that much. Well, it had really dropped to only five knots, so I missed the Jap carrier by about twenty feet.' As you know, twenty feet is practically aboard and a hit from that close can do plenty of damage. So I guess it's safe...
...Final dove descend...
...about it afterwards. He reached for the switch, said to himself: "Ah, at last." But the Zero jumped on Cocky's tail. He pulled up, but his plane stalled. When he came out of it at 4,000 feet he found two Zeroes on his tail. He dove, ending up with the altimeter reading 1,000 feet and doing 500 an hour, hedgehopping and gradually pulling away from the three Japs who had followed him all the way. His exhaust was shooting smoke...