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...cranky when it is flying below the speed of sound. This is one reason why Bill Bridgeman quietly denounced the X-3 as a "nasty little beast." When he does, one of the Douglas designers retorts: "What do you expect? The X-3 wasn't built to hover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bill & the Little Beast | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

...circle-the same circle that it makes every 26,000 years. Thus, the lecturer can move the stars through time: turn them back to 3,000 B.C. when Alpha Draconis was the earth's North Star, or look ahead some 120 centuries to see the Southern Cross hover above Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: UNIVERSE INDOORS | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

...needless imposition of loyalty oaths, but the recruiting of competent men & women sufficiently dedicated to the ideas of teaching and scholarship to recognize that such practices are incompatible with professional integrity. Once we have found such teachers, we should have implicit faith in them and not swoop or hover over them to determine what they are teaching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Unworkable Formula | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

Many universities, not so generous with freedom, hover over student publications, protecting good names and upholding the dignity of official commands. In all but a few instances the result is journalism that amounts to cranking out batches of publicity releases and admonishing readers for their lack of college spirit. Though we are often damned, we doubt whether it is for that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Daily Except Sundays | 1/8/1953 | See Source »

...Communists had no aircraft or antiaircraft guns. With impunity, French spotter planes could hover close enough to see a man reading a map, call in a dozen Bearcats for a napalm strike and watch a camouflaged Viet Minh troop concentration scatter in terror. All that was required now was for the fanatical Communists to charge the French positions, throw themselves on the French wire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF INDO-CHINA: Come & Get Us | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

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