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This means that a run to New York, for example, could be managed for as little as $8 per passenger. Since there is a minimum rental charge on the planes, flights to points nearer home will be somewhat less money-saving. Nonetheless, club members have high hopes of exploiting the weekend rush to women's colleges such as Smith and Mt. Holyoke...
...voyage to Venus, which revolves nearer the sun, the space navigator starts his ship in the direction opposite to the earth's orbital motion. Its net departure speed above escape velocity is subtracted from the orbital speed. This makes it move too slowly to stay on the earth's orbit, so the sun's gravitation curves it inward to Venus...
...College is "much nearer the issue of expansion than we tend to think," Delmar Leighton '19, Master of Dudley House, said yesterday. "There is a good chance that two of three Houses included in the Program for Harvard College may be used to enlarge the student body...
Every time the price level goes up, "a large group of students get nearer the economic margin." In connection with this fact, Leighton noted, there is the distinct possibility of admitting an increased number of non-resident students...
...pulse of the drumming quickened, the spirits drew nearer and began to possess their worshipers, who writhed and rolled in the sand: twitching and groaning. One believer pointed at another, yelling, "The evil god Exu has entered into him." then splashed a bottle of alcohol over him, touched it off with a candle, and watched his blazing victim run shrieking through the crowds. A young shop clerk, possessed by the spirit of the amorous Indian god Arruda, wrestled a pretty woman to the ground, died when her husband emptied his .45 into him. The next morning the beaches were littered...