Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a man goes over the side of his disabled airplane, from deep in his consciousness comes the reflex which makes him pull the rip cord, located over his heart, and open up his life saver. Psychologically it is almost impossible to forget to pull. Three hundred feet of altitude is the safe minimum in which the chute can be used, although jumps of less height are on record. The highest jump on record is one of better than 24,000 ft. At that height, the jumper had to have oxygen for breathing. The longest delayed jump was from...
True Stories. Next in significance after the back-to-normal advertising was Mainichi's great preoccupation with the struggles and problems of young people?particularly young women?in the bustling new day of Industrial Japan. Occidentals forget that though the Japanese is a sturdy fighter he or she is at heart extremely sensitive...
...match moving. He got ahead of Haines and switched to a soft game. It was a mistake. A devastating smasher, and the best half-volleyer among U.S. amateurs, Haines turned Wolf's gentle, strategic shots into points for himself, and caught up fast. Young Wolf seemed to forget everything Dufton had told him except the new stroke. He whaled the ball the way he did out of doors last year when he was playing on the Williams tennis team. Sometimes he got Haines in close and hit a terrific drive, and as Haines jumped back for it the ball...
...liked. There has been so much said about the splendor of this particular opus of Mr. Lehar that one is likely to form exaggerated expectations, especially if the previous revivals in this group have not been seen. The vastness of modern musical plays are very apt to make one forget that George White and Florenz Ziegfeld are unique to this generation. Therefore, those who know of this operetta only through the famous waltz are going to be particularly impressed with the thinness of something they expected to be rich in every form of theatrical entertainment...
...porter said the gentleman was in and was expecting him, led Tristram to a room. An elderly stranger rose to greet him: it was Tristram himself, but middleaged. He fainted, came to himself in the lobby of the hotel, left Granada next day. Soon he forced himself to forget. Many years later he had become a popular writer, rich, famed; again he came to Granada on a holiday, put up at the still expensive Hotel Boabdil. One evening came a knock on the door. The same scene was repeated, only this time he himself was the elderly stranger; this time...