Word: phalanxes
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Bolted motionless on a test stand, the little monster is not impressive. It has no coolly symmetrical propeller, no phalanx of cylinderheads, none of the hard geometrical grace of the conventional aircraft engine. Yet the unprepossessing turbojet engine has thrown the air designers into ecstatic confusion: nobody yet knows how fast the jet will enable man to fly, but the old speed ceilings are off. In their less guarded moments, sober designers talk of speeds so high that aircraft will glow like meteors...
...nights later "the old-time Princeton class spirit was back with all its pre-war force" as 500 defiant, dinkless Freshmen vainly battered a solid Sophomore phalanx in front of Alexander Hall. The Freshmen fought like "demons," the daily tells us. "Fists flew promiscuously, water and even water buckets dropped from above...
...least the fans did not fade with the gridders and the northward poles. Employing the phalanx principle first unveiled by a Macedonian scatback named Alex in a crucial intersectional away game on Turkish Turf, the local partisans were dedicated to the proposition: "they shall not pass...
...sport of kings, no stable had ever corralled such a fancy crop of horseflesh. Calumet's clear profit this year will top $600,000 (before taxes). The only other fancy U.S. stable likely even to finish in the black is Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's (which has Phalanx, winner of $236,400, on its team...
...Pilot by half a length. ... Jet Pilot by a length . . . Jet Pilot!" A moment later, through the roar of the crowd was heard a shattered mutter: "What am I talking about?" Then solemnly: "Ladies and gentlemen, I have made a terrific mistake ... I was looking at Phalanx and Jet Pilot disappeared on me. . . . The winner of the race is Faultless." Clem (and, with him, millions of others) had been confused by the similar silks, both predominantly offred, of Faultless and Jet Pilot...