Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case. The fire, caused by a severed fuel line, started when we were at an altitude of approximately 1,500 feet. It was necessary to hold the plane in a violent sideslip attitude to keep the flames from enveloping the cockpits; this naturally caused us to lose altitude at a faster than normal rate. Lacking intercom in those days, I signaled the sergeant to bail out; the only delay on his part was difficulty in getting out of his safety harness and clearing the plane in a steep sideslip attitude. The sergeant, as eager...
...Chemist Harrison Brown, Geologist F. J. Pettijohn and Physiologist Ralph Gerard, all of whom have gone elsewhere. Will Chicago ever again become as exciting a place as it used to be? The danger is, says Kimpton, "that you get so used to thinking in terms of retrenchment that you lose any imaginative flair." Kimpton's own summary of his first three years: "We have repaired our house, but our real task is to build a city...
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...government would lose an estimated $118 million under the proposal, but "this is a small price to pay for keeping higher education open to everybody," the Council argues. The bill will actually pay for itself eventually, the Council claims, for it will increase the earning power of those who would not otherwise attend college...
Lesser Evil. In Portsmouth, Ohio, Judge Lowell Thompson dismissed a drunken-driving charge against Robert Fortenberry, 32, after hearing Fortenberry's explanation: in his home state of Georgia, police confiscate an auto if liquor is found in it, so rather than lose his new car after a traffic mishap, he drank the half-pint of whisky he had under the seat...