Word: rolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tomorrow being June 6, the first Wednesday in June and the second in exam period, the editors will withdraw to the stacks of Widener and the alcoves of Lamont. The presses will not roll again till Thursday, June 7, but, then, no news is good news...
...would poison an ostrich . . . They will take a perfectly good horse-burger out of the freezer, and it comes to the customer, after subjection to the stove, a deep shade of grey and curled at the edges . . . There is no law which says that a roll or a piece of bread must be kept in the refrigerator and served stark and chilled, but there is a general suspicion that heating a biscuit is punishable by fine and imprisonment . . . I have observed, too, that the waitresses in neon-lit, chromiumed establishments invariably wear bobby sox and spend most of their time...
...crusty roll, whizzing like a meteor out of the unknown, shot past the Crumpet . . . and shattered itself against the wall. Noting that his guest had risen some eighteen inches into the air, the Crumpet begged him not to give the thing another thought. 'Just someone being civil,' he explained...
...impolite grenade, the civil roll may come as a pleasant intrusion, especially if it doesn't hit anybody. And P.G. Wodehouse never hits anybody. In his new book of short stories, as in dozens of his previous volumes of fiction, there is nobody to hit. Rather, there is a pawky plenty of the same nobodies that have populated all his stories, the same fluffy crumbs off the British upper crust. In Nothing Serious, Wodehouse gathers his crumbs as gracefully as ever into amusing little heaps of no significance whatever-except as reminders that there used to be a cake...
...four fixed fins arranged at right angles to one another. These keep the missile stable in flight, like the feathers of an arrow. The control surfaces are four small, triangular, movable fins one-third of the way back from the missile's nose. They can steer the missile, roll it and even give it lift, like an airplane in flight. All the fins have supersonic shapes; they are made of solid metal, with thin, diamond-shaped cross sections...