Word: rocketing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Safe as a county fair was aviation's winter meet, the All-American Air Maneuvers, at Miami last week. A half-dozen speed events went off like buggy-races. The ships that flew in them were not freakish rocket ships, but ordinary sport and businessmen's airplanes. At the finish at week's end, no open speed records had been broken, but no flier had been killed or maimed, no ship demolished. It was aviation's first big safe and sane get-together...
...breathe on, the poor fish's fills shot the air out into the water, following what Dr. Nett termed the "marine rocket principle...
...single flaw marred Odets' defense of his play. Whatever people might have been saying behind fans, only one Broadway critic had said any of the things about Rocket to the Moon that Odets was defending himself against...
...only brash, Johnny-jump-up William Saroyan hastens more incontinently to answer his critics than Playwright Clifford Odets. Last week, after the opening of his new play about love, Rocket to the Moon, Odets punctually tore into print...
...Some of the points that are being made about Rocket to the Moon," said Odets, "were made in precisely the same way about Golden Boy at first. Critics complained that the subject was so well known: —Why do it again...