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Every new airplane engine starts out in life as a fairly simple machine but gets more & more complicated as it grows up. Ram jets are no exception. The early models were hardly more than hollow cylinders-enchantingly simple, but also extremely inefficient. Their "fires" often blew out, and there was no adequate way to control their power output. So the engineers went to work to educate the ram jet and teach it how to act as a well-behaved engine should. Recently the Wright Aeronautical Corp. told how a grown-up supersonic ram jet works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Well-Behaved Engine | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

...drizzly afternoon last week, a train from Oranienburg rolled into Gesund-brunnen Station in Berlin's French sector. Haggard men in tattered clothes and bony, hollow-eyed women straggled onto the platform. Last to get out was a white-faced, white-haired old man with a frayed velvet-collared overcoat. He leaned gasping against a wall. "Yes, yes, from over there," he muttered. "I must be dreaming. Please don't ask me any questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: From Over There | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

...quarry was first sighted at 3:15 p.m., near Mrs. Charles Scribner Jr.'s estate, "Dew Hollow," in northern Somerset County. When the fox saw the hounds coming, he lit out for the south. On the way, he led hounds and huntsmen across two state highways and through a couple of startled villages. Said Mrs. Scribner, the club's master-of-hounds: "It was nothing short of a miracle that none of the hounds was killed in the traffic." The fox picked up a long lead in the streets of North Branch (pop. 250), then trotted back into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Appointment in New Jersey | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

...unlike Christian's trek in Pilgrim's Progress. The wayfaring nation started in the Slough of Dispond, went through Vanity Fair, passed the lion-guarded House Beautiful, profited from the counselings of Prudence, stumbled on the Hill called Difficulty, defeated Apollyon, a fiend, saw through the hollow words of Mr. Worldly Wiseman, encountered the contradictory Works of the Law, viewed the Delectable Mountains, encountered the doubletalk of Mr. By-ends of Fair-speech, and finally came to the Hill called Clear. But nowhere did anyone find Normalcy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pilgrim's Progress | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...Magic Herbs. This hollow old stump of a plot might be enough for many a bestseller, but Novelist Goudge crams it with something more. She adores animals; so the book becomes an ark of cats, dogs, horses and oxen which almost outnumber the human population. She has a fondness for the supernatural; so the book is aclog with fairies, a white witch, magic herbs, and vervain brews. She cannot resist a legend, so several of them weave and wind in a fine confusion through the novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Woof of Joy | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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