Word: hops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brain, whose official name is "Automatic Flight Controller," is not a new device; it has been under gradual improvement for several years. Before attempting the Atlantic hop, it had steered "the same airplane on long automatic flights around...
After seven years of sail, he went into steam with the Cunard Line in 1910. In World War I, he served at Jutland, in H.M.S. Valiant, went back to Cunard when the war was over. He fondly remembers the Scythia, where he made the crew hop to their tasks. They gave him a handsome desk set when he left. Said the spokesman for the presentation committee: "You ran us hard, sir, but it's all in the way it's done...
...until Sir Patrick gets to Hudson's Bay House in Winnipeg will he decide just where to visit. Then, says he, "All I have to do is to grab my hat and hop in a plane. The boys know I don't need much out there." Out there, "the Bay," as the company is known, has more than 200 trading posts for the governor to choose from...
...vicar was shocked. For three months, on a hop-skip-&-jump tour of the U.S., he had talked to young people about their morals. Last week, back home at London's Holy Trinity Church, the Rev. Bryan Green shocked his congregation. "The morals of American students are deplorable," he said. "In the state universities at least 90% of the men students and 69% of the women have sex relations outside marriage. Intimacy between high-school students is very common...
Sanders Theatre's usual grim atmosphere gave way last night almost enough to permit James Otis to hop off his pedestal and take a seat in the parquet. A rousing, unselfconscious performance by the celebrated Harvard University Band; several ad lib remarks delivered from the podium by director Malcolm Holmes including his introduction of "Wintergreen" as a "New England folk song dating from the seventeenth century"; and an extremely responsive audience who howled with appreciation after each number in true Soldiers Field tradition were responsible for the transformation...