Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether the varsity shift will do away with the varsity drag remains to be seen this weekend, as a radically renovated Crimson crew meets Navy and Penn on the Severn Saturday afternoon...
...appalling to me that someone, because be was a disappointed applicant, should drag in an issue that does not exist. My close associations and friendships with so many people of every race, creed and color is, to me, a complete answer to this unfounded and unsigned letter. Samuel P. Sears...
...could tell them how to make a supersonic airplane fly safely at slow speeds, i.e., below 650 m.p.h. At Mach 2, very small wings will give sufficient lift. If they are made bigger, to give lift at low speed, they stir up too much drag. So the tiny wings of the X3, designed for efficiency and minimum drag at very high speed, make the ship unstable and cranky when it is flying below the speed of sound. This is one reason why Bill Bridgeman quietly denounced the X-3 as a "nasty little beast." When he does...
...Senator Edwin Johnson, one of the staunchest advocates in Congress of CBS color, recently swung to RCA, wrote Board Chairman David Sarnoff: "Your efforts in devising a compatible television system will long be remembered as a magnificent achievement of science . . . There may be those who may desire to drag their feet at this point. Please do not allow them to slow you down. Please keep up the steam...
...spending more money on Indo-China now, the United States may end a war that would otherwise drag on indefinitely, and at the same time gain the confidence of the people of Vietnam. We hope that this type of clear thinking will characterize the new State Department policy in Asia...