Word: nose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Lait of I.N.S., huddled in the glass nose with the bombardier, saw the ack-ack. He also saw "gun flashes from three enemy cruisers and gun flashes from shore batteries. Just as our plane was directly over the target, bombs from the preceding planes hit the ships. Our plane was tossed like a cockleshell. The target was ablaze...
Rather than force all students to place their hopes on the nose of the final, the Business School could give several two-hour exams throughout the term, weighting each one progressively heavier. It is one thing to make sure the finals get marked more fairly; it is much more important to make sure that the whole course gets examined more fairly. Under this plan, the student would get a more accurate return on his effort and actual capabilities. The last two exams should be more heavily weighted since they would become more complicated and comprehensive than the first ones...
Last week, just ten days after its keel was laid, Anna Roosevelt Boettiger smashed a bottle of California champagne on the nose of the Joseph N. Teal (named after an Oregon industrial pioneer), sent it down the ways 87% complete, with steam in its boilers. Three days, 23 hours, 30 minutes later the Joe Teal, fitted out, was delivered. Son Edgar had served notice that anyone who meant to take a record from him would have to hump, meaning hump...
...Heinkel HE 113. Most of the other features are standard with many other types of fighter craft now in use. The armament is heavy but not unusually so: two 20-mm. cannon, one in each wing, and two 7.7-mm. (30 cal.) machine guns on either side of the nose...
...Albert Sabath's Alsab: a $25,000 match race, winner-take-all; by a nose, over Warren Wright's Whirlaway; after a pulldevil, pull-baker stretch drive that ended in a photo finish; at New England's Narragansett Park. Three-year-old Alsab carried 119 lb.; four-year-old Whirlaway, 126. The distance: a mile and three-sixteenths...