Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although General Tunner was looking into the future, the Air Force already had two planes which come close to filling his bill. One of them, the Douglas Globemaster II (C-124), made its first test flight last week. It can carry 50,000 Ibs., has clamshell doors in its nose big enough to drive a truck through. It falls short mainly in its range, 1,500 miles...
...could not forget or forgive the Reformation of the Church of England. The Watertons of Walton Hall were one of Britain's most ancient Roman Catholic squirearchies, and ever since the day of "Harry the Eighth, our royal goat" (as Charles Waterton described the monarch), they had been first plundered, then scorned by their Protestant rulers. But the Watertons had never surrendered either their faith or their ancient seat, a mansion on a lake-island in Yorkshire, and had even fought off Oliver Cromwell with swivel guns and muskets. It was no wonder, then, that when Charles, 2yth Lord...
...also served to nourish the largest bee that ever buzzed in Charles Waterton's bonnet, i.e., his conviction that the common brown rat had been introduced to England by Protestant King George I. Thenceforth, the exterminating of the "Hanoverian rat" furnished the Squire with a pursuit that at first threatened to become his entire vocation...
...According to the regulations voted by the faculty, a freshman or sophomore in good standing but not on the Dean's. List who is absent from his last College exercise before or his first College exercise after the Christmas recess will be subject to disciplinary action...
...Attention is called to the fact that every undergraduate not on the Dean's List is required under the conditions explained below to attend his last College exercise before and his first College exercise after the Christmas recess. The recess will be from Thursday, December 22, to Wednesday, January 4, inclusive...