Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more fuel at 500 m.p.h. than at 400. But because the jet engine usually must operate at maximum capacity from the start, it has been relatively inefficient at low speeds. Moreover, to cut air resistance, the P-59 has extremely thin wings which have no room for fuel tanks. Nonetheless, U.S. engineers are reported to be approaching a solution to this problem...
...magazine section, jazzed up to hold the doubled circulation Publisher Cox has built since 1939, will nonetheless keep the old accent on the homespun and homegrown. Its first issue featured an interview with rarely interviewed Margaret (Gone With the Wind) Mitchell, a Journal alumna. Its second spotlighted another Georgia big-name, Lillian Smith, telling what happens to a Southerner who writes a controversial novel (Strange Fruit) about the South. (What happens: "I was told I would lose my friends, that my family would be injured. . . . We're all well and happy." Friends showed "wonderful loyalty.") The Journal paid Miss...
...Such doctors as Edward Jenner (vaccination pioneer) and Havelock Ellis made the grade, but a list of all the doctor-poets the anthologist uncovered shows that such poetasters as William Harvey. Hippocrates, Sir William Osier, Rabelais and Morris Fishbein failed to satisfy Mrs. McDonough's critical taste. Nonetheless, a lot of doggerel got in. One of the most amusing contemporary specimens is John Fallon's Inscription for an Old Well...
...shade too diagrammatic in its characters and plot and, like many otherwise laudable stories about democracy, a shade too sanctimonious, The Master Race is nonetheless an unusually pointed, serious, well-made picture. When the cornered villain jeers at his enemies, "You fall out among yourselves. . . . Victory is a nightmare to you. . . ," the screen play makes articulate a fierce and needed admonition to all men of good intention. When Miss Gates, cajoled in a sinister way by Mr. Coulouris, nervously binds and unbinds the hair ribbon of her precarious girlishness and stares with swelling excitement into her mirrored face, she makes...
...chief U.S. expert on migratory birds, Frederick C. Lincoln of the Fish and Wildlife Service, doubts such stories; he admits that birds are sometimes forced down by snowstorms, but thinks confusion and fright have as much to do with it as anything. Nonetheless, airmen's reports have greatly extended ornithology. Airmen, for example, have found old notions about the speed of birds much exaggerated: the top speed of ducks seems to be about 55 m.p.h.; of the fastest known birds, swifts and duck hawks, not more than 150 to 200 m.p.h...