Word: fluids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where most of its members have served in this war). There, they know by experience, is where the true research is being sweated out. As a new technique is developed, airmen who have worked it out are brought home to teach it. Thus AAFSAT's faculty is as fluid as the lore it teaches...
...student body is more fluid still. Every month 4,500 airmen will go through the course (present enrollment: 3,100). All are graduates of specialized schools-e.g. bombardment, pursuit, intelligence-and all are headed directly for the front. In the first half of their month their work is in the classrooms; in the latter half in the air, ranging over AAFSAT's battle country and out over the Gulf on missions. Next stop for all: combat outfits. Carefully selected, they are sent to key posts where they can spread the lessons they have learned...
...pesky wallaby (small kangaroo) ran in front of his Hying Fortress as it took off, broke a hydraulic line on the landing gear. Flames from the exhaust fired the fluid. In a few seconds, the fire set off the bomb load and all on board were killed...
...style. Less admirable is his tendency to concentrate long, if lovingly, on surfaces. Like his fellow historian in American fiction, Robert Graves, Allen is weakest in his departures into romantic interludes. Unlike Graves, he has a passion for extremes; the 6 ft. 4 in. Salathiel Albine with muscles "like fluid oak wood" and the movements of "a young male panther" sets the superscale that marks the whole work for good and bad. And in his eager use of sentimental aspects of the Scottish border novel, Allen is capable of sinking to turgid depths, of causing a betrayed girl...
...Fluid milk is unfit for human consumption, says 75-year-old Dr. Horace Wendell Soper of St. Louis. As a onetime recorder of the GastroEnterological Association and chairman of A.M.A.'s section in that field, he cannot be dismissed as a crank. In 1941, after 47 years of practice, he retired, but soon returned to work because "I liked work better." He started damning fluid milk about 25 years ago, after 15 years of watching its effect in the human...