Word: panning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more traffic, and more congestion at airports (many of them inadequate). One hope of betterment lay in the fact that "ground-controlled approach," in which radar is used to guide a pilot on to a field he cannot see, was being installed at New York, Chicago and Washington airports. Pan American Airways had put it in at Gander, Newfoundland (after a Belgian airliner crashed there, killing 27). If used at all large airports, G.C.A. might cut airline fatalities in half...
...ancient fairy tales or legends-Cinderella, Puss in Boots, Aladdin, Babes in the Wood, Dick Whittington, Mother Goose. Sometimes these are weirdly blended: this year's Red Riding Hood features Mother Hubbard and Simple Simon. Most modern admissions to the panto-Pantheon: Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan. The eternal favorite: Cinderella...
There was no truth, said both sides, to gossip that T.W.A. was going to sell out to Pan American Airways. But it was true that T.W.A. was sounding out the RFC and private banks for a whopping loan...
...savage war against the Miao in the 18th Century, but there has been no violent friction since, except for a brief outbreak in 1832. The tribesmen live mainly in the hills of far southwestern China. Both Yi and Miao have maintained their own tribal governments, customs and dress. They pan gold and hunt animals, trading metal and furs with the plains people for manufactured goods. They farm and raise sheep, spinning the wool into long capes. Yi and Miao women are heavily bejeweled with amber and jade, worked in silver. Most of them smoke long, thin pipes. Yi and Miao...
...spending more time on their lipstick than on their Latin, amiable Dr. Wood has built the college from a 1912 enrollment of 52 (and a $100,000 deficit) into a thriving academy that picks & chooses its lucky girls. Stephens has had such attractions as 75-year-old Maude (Peter Pan) Adams as a dramatics teacher. Talent scouts-who are called "admissions counselors"-give prospects the onceover, report (among other things) on their "comeliness" and home-town popularity. Stephens prefers not to waste its makeup, clothing and budget clinics, its courses in nutrition and home management, on the hopelessly homely...