Word: doves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove...
...took many years before a public nerved to the crankier literary difficulties of Proust and Joyce could understand the intense beauty and relevance of James's mature novels (The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, The Wings of the Dove). Along with the other reprints, anthologies and critical studies of the James revival, The American Scene should encourage more & more U.S. readers to turn to his writing, as perhaps toward the peace of greatness...
...matter what its support may do. Sperry engineers wondered if a "vibrating gyroscope" might not be more efficient than the more conventional rotating type. There would be no bearings to worry about, and the ball could be kept in motion by the modern magic of electronics. So they dove deep into physics and mathematics...
...Ring Twice Tonight, she opened in Long Beach, Calif., then rumbled northward, hoped to last all the way to Broadway. Her role: an undercover agent for the FBI. Supporting cast: two maids and 15 men. Covering her added attractions: two negligees (one at a time)-one in orange and dove grey, the other just lacy orange, backed with white satin here & there, and here & there...
With Asdic the harpoon-gunners hoped to follow a sounding whale on his deep dive under the sea, and to be waiting for him when he came up to blow. But the whales, nimbler than U-boats, dove out of Asdic's sonic beam, and the gunners had to rely, as of old, on their knowledge of whale psychology. Radar was useless for spotting surfaced whales, which gave very poor "pips" on its scope. Even at locating antarctic ice it was none too useful in the hands of the whalers' semi-trained operator...