Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upward with it through the pitch-dark passages of the ship, the air in his life jacket buoying him gently, but not so much as to force him against the overhead, where he could not maneuver. After a few awful minutes, he drifted out of the Perth like a ghost from the tomb...
...wonder that a lot of people were surprised recently to read in the "In Memoriam" columns of the august London Times this notice: "At Battle Bosworth August 22, 1485, there fell, fighting bravely, Richard III of England. King. Statesman. Soldier. Gentleman. Deeply mourned. 'From distant shores, pale dusty ghost. One grain of sand salutes your memory...
...simply annihilate her. I know. I was annihilated myself yesterday by a pro no one has ever heard of." Added Little Mo, the hardest hitter in the ladies' division: "Men hit so much harder and run so much faster than women that we don't have a ghost of a chance against them . . . They are so much stronger at the net, [and] even when they stay back, it doesn't make much difference. The pro I played . . . hardly volleyed once, and still he killed...
...more professors exactly 24 hours to get off the campus. The trustees also put five more faculty men on probation, and these later quit after refusing to sign a new contract that stipulated they "forget the Reese affair." Cried one flabbergasted citizen of Cheney: "Why, this will become a ghost town." Washington's Governor Arthur B. Langlie apparently agreed: he ordered an investigation of the whole college...
...Gyron is an axial-flow engine, intended for use in supersonic aircraft, while all De Havilland's previous jets (e.g., the Goblin, which powers the Vampire fighter, and the Ghost, which powers the Comet and the Venom fighter), have been centrifugal types.* De Havilland said that the engine, which has low gas consumption and a low ratio of weight to thrust, is being developed first for supersonic fighter planes, later could be built for transports. Said De Havilland: the Gyron is the first of "a new generation of really large turbine-jet power units. The company is confident that...