Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lived. Southern enthusiasts like to dream that, had Jackson lived, he and Lee might well have made up for the material deficiencies of the Confederacy. In this absorbing book, Texas-born Historian Vandiver (Rice Institute) does not hazard a guess, but notes that Stonewall's magic was greatly aided by the mediocrity of his opponents. Tactics that bewildered Banks and Pope and Hooker might well have foundered against commanders like Grant and Sherman. As it was, Jackson's greatest coups were repeatedly frustrated by the dogged resistance of the often outwitted but seldom outfought Union soldier...
Although i.e. made its charges last May, when it published its controversial issue on Harvard, the reference to Bosco was only incidental to a general attack on Harvard apathy. Speaking of the CRIMSON, i.e. wrote, "the dream of every CRIMSON editor or candidate is to break the story of E. A. Bosco selling drugs around the Square or distributing pornographic movies to the clubs...
...long-term dream of airplane designers, the jet-powered vertical take-off plane, became an official reality last week. The Air Force announced that Ryan Aeronautical Co. has test-flown successfully its jet X-13 VTOL (vertical take-off and landing), putting it through all its paces after 18 months of partial tests...
Since Miss Moore refused to consider money "in advance of performance," Wallace agreed to honor "your wish for a fancy unencumbered," sent sketches of the dream car to give the poetess inspiration. After looking at them, Miss Moore replied: "I am by no means sure that I can help you to the right thing, but performance with elegance casts a spell. Let me do some thinking in the direction of impeccable, symmechromatic, thunder-blender . . . (The exotics, if I can shape them a little.) Dearborn might come into one ... I thank you for realizing that under contract esprit could not flower...
...that goes into regulars. Because of the tobacco difference, the filtered smoke usually carries more nicotine than the average regular, and just about the same amount of tar. Tobacco geneticists recently developed an exceptionally light, low-nicotine leaf that would have once been hailed as the tobaccoman's dream. But makers say it lacks the taste to sell, and so it is piling up in Government warehouses...