Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This unbalance makes it necessary that every passenger car built today requires . . . straight line stops ... or the car will skid out of control . . . When it comes to curves which slow a car without the use of brakes, the same principle applies, and you are liable to go off the road and land wrapped round a tree or in the ditch. Unavoidable deceleration of a car on a curve with weight out in front results in many fatal accidents...
...Those of you who have read TIME for, say, ten years or so are accustomed to seeing departments come and go, or change, as the accent on the news changed. You will recall, for instance, that in the May 1, 1939 issue TIME'S editors introduced a new, occasional department, Background For War, dedicated to the proposition that world war was close at hand and that you would understand it better if we reviewed the events which led up to it. The week the German Wehrmacht invaded Poland Background gave way to another new department, World...
...batting average has not been high. There have been many at bats, but often, as in the case of the proposed Food Poll, the Council has popped to the pitcher, and often, as in the case of the Red Book investigation, the Council has only watched the strikes go...
Tomorrow afternoon the swordsmen will meet Cornell, and then go on to a half-dozen more meets. The Cornell game will introduce the "electric epee," which automatically records touches with a flashing light and buzzor. Peroy said yesterday that the wired-up fencers are "quite a sight...
...unlikely, for example, that the changes will include facilities for smokers. As it is, girls studying in the Fiske Room not only interrupt their own studying when they go out for a cigarette, but also distract non-smokers. If smoking were limited to one room, perhaps in the basement, the cost of effective ventilation would not be extravagant and it would be a considerable convenience to all girls. Another universal complaint, which will probably not be fully corrected in the new scheme, concerns the straight wooden chairs. They might have done very well in the more straight-laced days forty...