Word: earths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minutes at full power), the X-1 slowed down and was back on the other side of sound's great wall. Chuck scavenged the last of the dangerous oxygen and alcohol from the system by flushing it with nitrogen. Then he began the long glide to earth, listening to the clock ticking on the instrument panel. He somehow found this "awful boring," he says, and welcomed his spurt of interest when he landed the X-1 at close to 165 miles an hour and rolled to a stop on Muroc's smooth surface...
...wouldn't be more surprised," cried one down-to-earth Yale professor, "by an undefeated football team." The professor was not alone last week. All over New Haven, from the classrooms to Mory's, students, teachers and Whiffenpoofs were hashing over the announcement that Yale's President Charles Seymour was going to retire...
bind; Space is like earth, rounded, a padded
...scorch all earth of all but one machine...
Gaiety v. Wit. There is no earth-shaking action in the past & present story that Irish-born, English-educated Joyce Cary chooses to tell in To Be a Pilgrim (the fourth of his novels to be published in the U.S.), but Author Cary manages to convey one man's view of what has been happening to English life since Tom Wilcher's Victorian youth...