Word: launching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coolidge and for the Varsity 150, George Langdon. They will serve as assistant manager for the 1953 season and then be head managers for the following year. It their new positions they will assist the head manager in making arrangements for crew trips, and also drive the coach's launch...
...Government, not convinced that the U.S. has aluminum capacity to meet all emergencies, is holding a meeting this week to decide whether to launch a new expansion of 150,999 tons. But aluminum makers believe that present capacity alone will provide enough so that, by 1952's fourth quarter, all Government restrictions on. aluminum use can be lifted...
...pure animal cunning, there is nothing that beats the "infra-supra ploy." You know that something is true, and you know the professor knows it is true, but you'll be hanged if you know why. So you launch into a scholarly essay on the subject. The first time you reach the point in question, you state the correct conclusion and in parenthesis say "infra" i.e. this will be proved later. Next comes eight or nine pages of malarkey--ponderous, confusing, perhaps even relevant in spots. Then you reach the conclusion, in which you restate the known "correct position...
...Birmingham, technicians asked the visiting Metropolitan Opera troupe to have their pictures taken to help launch a new mobile X-ray unit. Soprano Lily Pons agreed, and tossed out a challenge: "You will see the most wonderful lungs you have ever seen . . . I can hold my breath longer than anyone else at the Metropolitan. What's more I can sing [a continuous perfect high note] for 13 seconds without taking in more air." Tenor Jan Peerce countered with his boast: "I can hold my breath one minute and 13 seconds with my mouth full of pebbles." Basso Norman Scott...
Josef Stalin is "too prudent" to launch a war against the West, Alan G. Kirk, Jr., former ambassador to Russia, said in an interview Friday...