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Paralyzed, Captain Clendening held on to the rail of his bridge, thought not of getting his passengers off, thought only of death by drowning. With a final rattle and hiss the San Pedro slid to a fathomless resting place...
Contrary to legend, bowstrings give out a hard, flat sound, not a twang; arrows hiss rather than whistle in their flight. The loudest sound on an archery range is the thump of arrows when they reach the thick straw target. Into the gold bull's-eye of the 48-in. target at Canandaigua last week the arrows loosed by a lanky toxophilite from Coldwater, Mich., thumped most consistently. He, Russell Hoogerhyde, won the men's championship for the second time in succession, maintained a record of winning every tournament he has entered. His score...
ARMY & NAVY Last week a great olive-green snake with a hiss-like thunder hovered in the skies over the eastern half of the U. S. Sometimes it strung out in a disjointed line 20 mi. long. Sometimes it coiled in angles and echelons over cities. In the evenings it disintegrated, scattered down to rest for the night. For the first time, the Army had mustered its entire air strength for maneuvers. The 672 green-bodied, yellow-winged planes-205 pursuit, 335 observation, 51 attack, 36 bombardment, 45 transport-composed the greatest peacetime concentration of aircraft in U. S. history...
...American women to live in Russia. American women with their demands for better food, better sanitation and more comforts, cause too much trouble and discontent among the people. I didn't have to wait in line at the Soviet stores as the Russians did, but they used to hiss me. I had to have a police escort to get through. Since we left, I've heard they've had to change the rules and make American women stand in line, too, because Russians resented...
...fortnight watching Long Lance make his first solo. The chins fell agape as his plane, nose down, roared earthward in a power dive, pulled up and over in a perfectly executed loop. Long Lance climbed back into the sky and the dumfounded watchers heard his motor die to a hiss, saw the ship stall, saw it "fall off" on one wing and into what every novice should dread?a tailspin. The motor barked again, and Long Lance pulled out and into a gentle landing. Grinning, Long Lance clambered from his cockpit to face school discipline for his antics...