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...Case a Babe. Since the war, the coffee break has been written into union contracts and authorized by state labor laws. No truly modern office building is designed without its grid of coffee dispensaries. Small-town and suburban housewives have adopted "morning coffee" as an excuse to go neighboring after the beds are made, the baby is changed and the breakfast dishes washed. In the Pacific Northwest, youths make their first date with a new girl an invitation for coffee. "Gives the guy a chance to case the babe, cheap," explained a young blade from Walla Walla...
...principle, the afterburner is as simple as ABC. The tailpipe of an ordinary turbojet engine is lengthened and inside its throat is placed a grid of hollow, perforated cross-pieces. When maximum power is needed, fuel is squirted into the stream of hot gas racing out of the tailpipe. There is plenty of heat to ignite it and plenty of oxygen to keep it alight. So a vast yellow flame bursts out of the pipe, and the plane gets a mighty shove forward...
Furthermore, insisted the athletic director, the purpose of amateur athletics is not to have an all-winning team but "to fit the athlete into college life." Washington claims it can afford to maintain this policy because, like Harvard, the university pays the grid deficit (about $20,000 annually) as part of its educational expenses...
...airmen flying the far north in search of weather data have often been bedeviled and bewildered by the arctic twilight. During the long arctic winter, the navigators of the 375th Squadron, at Eielson Airforce Base near Fairbanks, Alaska, had no trouble. They used special "grid" maps* and flew by the stars, visible all the time. During the arctic summer, they flew by the never-setting...
...With a "grid" or rectangular network of lines superimposed on the conic charts (with closely converging meridians) which are generally used near the pole...