Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they aren't directly in the shops, student often stand or squat outside is exchange he day's gossip. Given the right weather and the right time, Green Street becomes the most alive place in Northampton...
According to skyside gossip, two new experimental rocket planes are being built for the Air Force. One is the Bell X2, an improvement on the X1, in which Test Pilot Chuck Yeager first flew faster than sound (TIME, April 18, 1949). The X2, rumored for a long time, may be ready for testing this year. Current guesses give it a top speed of 2,500 m.p.h., at an altitude of 200,000 ft. (38 miles). Even more radical is the X3, which Douglas is said to be developing. Powered with a ramjet and a rocket motor as well...
Darkness and Day, by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Further astonishing dilemmas of some of Compton-Burnett's genteel English characters; contrived mainly to let the characters gossip unconventionally about life, death and each other (TIME, March...
Darkness and Day, by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Further astonishing dilemmas of some of Compton-Burnett's genteel English characters; contrived mainly to let the characters gossip unconventionally about life, death and each other (TIME, March...
...attitude toward military life should be if you are going to "get ahead," and suggests ways that experience gained in service can be useful later in civilian life. Actually the book supplies little information that the veteran of one month will not have learned through intuition or barrack room gossip: But as a handy reference work for the novitiate, this book gathers information that otherwise isn't easily come...