Word: flights
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This dialogue, chopped up now and then by some words of advice, somehow seems to make good fencing terms. Last year, Peroy built a top-flight squad that lost only to Cornell and Yale--the latter game by a heavily-disputed one point. Last year also produced a team that pulled as many Three-Musketeer antics as a fencing team can. John Gay used to slash his saber as if he were swatting mosquitoes in a Cuban jungle. Red McNeil had his own little trick. He'd lunge out with a saber and then roll onto his back to escape...
Because they have had actual contact with the best football stars, the players usually make the best judges, stated one Navy player who met some of the country's top flight teams...
Lloyd J. Walker '50 and Richard E. Firth '48 will flight the weekend's third battle at a meeting of the New England Intercollegiate Debating Council at Tufts University...
Fast planes of the future will probably look like the Navy's new jet fighter, the Chance Vought XF7U-1, which completed its initial flight tests last week. The new fighter has short, broad wings "swept back" at an angle of 45° or better. There is no tail; two stabilizers with rudders are attached to the trailing edges of the wings. Two Westinghouse turbojet engines drive the plane at better than 600 m.p.h...
...Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams' vivid chronicle of a nymphomaniac's downhill flight from reality (TIME...