Word: floating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Missing in Action. Lieut. John Gilbert Winant Jr., 21, older son of the Ambassador to Britain; after an Eighth Air Force raid on Münster, his 13th combat mission. Fellow flyers reported seeing parachutes float from his Flying Fortress Tech Supply, shot down in an attack by three enemy fighters. A Princeton sophomore when he joined the Army Air Forces last year, the handsome, taciturn pilot flew on his first mission eight weeks ago, joined the first U.S. shuttle raid on Germany, flew safely to Africa over 300 miles of hot enemy territory with 75 flak holes...
...Legion's objections be entirely brushed off. Nevertheless, the 24 Russian cameramen who shot Stalingrad (eight of them were killed on their jobs) have provided history with some images of war as true as they are powerful. Some of the images: > A great, flaming city which seems to float on a tranquil river until the Volga also flames from the reflected holocaust...
...little more than a week the British were over the city. This time Nazi interceptors with searchlights in their noses had climbed above them, circling through the high thin air, dropping brilliantly burning white flares. A British pilot steered his Halifax toward his target, watching the flares float down around him in parallel lanes. His navigator counted 50 flares "going down even more slowly than a leaf falls." In the eerily lighted sky world, half a thousand Nazi fighters fell on the attackers. Some of the British were sent plunging into the city's streets. An uncounted number...
Projection from a Needle. Walker's discovery is an ingenious projection of a phenomenon familiar to every schoolboy: a dry needle laid on water will float because of the water's surface tension. Surface tension is what makes water stick to the sides of a glass, and if a column of glass is fine enough, water will actually climb up its sides. Suppose, reasoned Walker, this "wetting" principle were applied to a porous membrane: would water filling the pores have enough surface (or "interfacial") tension to block other liquids while letting water through...
Frankly, this reporter grieves with Navy, who well may float their ship of disgusted on the waves of civilian complaints. Our mistified Bostonians evidently do not realize that the time for being with feminine companions is indeed briefly spare. Time, at Harvard is rationed like meat at the corner butcher shop...