Word: long-sought-for
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AERIAL BUS will be built by ex-T.W.A. President Jack Frye in hopes of finding the long-sought-for replacement to the Douglas DC-3. Frye's projected high-wing, four-engine F-l will probably be built by a European company, sell for $350,000, haul five tons of cargo or 50 passengers at an aerial snail's pace (150 m.p.h.) but be able to use a very short runway...
...weak bombs exploded in Nevada may have been this long-sought-for weapon. They may have been dropped from small aircraft or even fired from something resembling artillery. If such weapons lave been perfected, they will be a powerful addition to U.S. military strength...
...possible," Professor Paul C. Mangolsdorf points out, "that the primitive corn found by the expedition, although probably not itself wild corn, is not far removed in its characteristics from the long-sought-for wild corn...
Occasionally, when an article appears in a national periodical proclaiming the completion of a long-sought-for theological union of two Protestant sects, it is hailed as a sign of the times: the beginnings of a great post-war religious revival and consolidation. Just as often, though not so well publicized an occurrence, new seets are breaking off from old ones. A part of the congregation of a Holy Roller church in a southern community may disagree with the majority on some such issue as the permissibility of smoking and a new seet is born, perhaps under the name Holy...
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