Word: schoolboy
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...Gladstone and Asquith, had been the training ground of hundreds of M.P.s, had heard the best brains of Britain in its debates. But never had it seen anyone rise in debate garbed in a U.S. lumberjacket and red baseball cap, and self-billed as "the original public schoolboy-from the public schools of Morrison, Illinois...
Burrileville's Huskies are perennial Rhode Island state schoolboy champions and New England Tourney finalists, this being their fifth successive title...
...many respects like a high-school football captain drafted willy-nilly as president of the student council and editor of the school paper. John Ford still treats him as a clumsy sophomore and bawls him out unmercifully when they work together. Wayne takes it like a scolded schoolboy and murmurs, "Sorry, Coach," with abject hero-worship. But in other quarters Duke himself is the worshiped hero. Sometimes he finds the situation confusing...
...Schoolboy's Dart. Airplanes with conventional wings have been known to run into trouble at high speeds. Near the sonic barrier, the turbulent air shoved aside by wings and fuselage offers so much resistance that to go still faster requires extravagant power. Given that power, some straight-winged planes do push through into supersonic flight, e.g., Bell's rocket-powered X-1 (TIME, April 18, 1949). But there are tense moments while they pass through disturbed...
...wings as thin as possible in relation to width, 2) keep the wing span small in relation to width and 3) sweep the wings back sharply as they stretch away from the fuselage. These tricks of design, they discovered, add up to a wing like an arrowhead or a schoolboy's paper dart...