Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite this inconvenience, both beaches were swarming over the past three days. Sunday bathers at Revere were routed by an evening thunder-showing, but the crowds returned yesterday...
...coach succeeds Bernard Kelly and will assist head coach Hal Ulen with special attention to diving. He comes to Harvard from Sampson, where he has been director of the swimming program for the past two years...
...last week's papal bull, Pius XII warned his people not to plan the trip as a junket. "These pilgrimages," he wrote, "must not be made with the attitude of those who travel for pleasure, but with the spirit of piety which animated the faithful of past centuries, who, overcoming obstacles of all kinds, often afoot, came to Rome to wash away their sins with tears of sorrow and to implore of God peace and forgiveness...
...Viking's inner works are much like the V-2's: it burns alcohol and "lox" (liquid oxygen) in a single combustion chamber. Chief improvement is in the control mechanism. When a big rocket first takes off, the air is not moving past its fins fast enough to provide steering control. The Germans got around this difficulty by putting small, movable graphite vanes in the blast of hot gas from the combustion chamber. By deflecting the gas stream slightly when the rocket wobbled, the vanes kept it upright until it was moving fast enough for the outside fins...
Heady Draught. In Miami, Fred H. Kautzmann charged that the James Drug Shop had mixed the labels on two prescriptions, causing him for the past year to rub stomach medicine on his scalp and drink his hair tonic...