Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Weaving down Dunster Street with a catalogue under his arm, Vag was stopped by a double-breasted sharkskin for sale at $65. He realized with a shock that the suit would cost him the same as Comp. Lit. 3. Here was a new equality; he had never thought of education in those terms before. Either fabric was less or learning was more--in any case, it was a change. A well cut suit, he thought. I wonder if Comp. Lit. 3 is well...
Operating through a few unions which they control (e.g., fire brigades, electrical workers, bakers & confectioners, vehicle builders, foundry workers), the Commies tried first to defeat a motion condemning unofficial strikes. Pale, shock-haired Communist Abe Cohen of the Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers leaped to the rostrum and attacked the motion as "a challenge to the integrity of the rank & file and an insult to their intelligence...
Harvard's $2,500,000 new Lament Library, now under construction, is a compromise-a kind of midway modern, which is streamlined enough to shock Cantabrigian purists (though the Harvard Yard is already a pleasant grabbag of Georgian, Greek Revival, Victorian and nondescript). Princeton, with its huge neo-Gothic halls already built, had, like Miami, gone all out for uniformity, but in the opposite direction. Its new $6,000,000 library was carefully designed to "fit in" on the campus...
Ghosts Know. The speed of sound! That magic and frightening quantity dominates the dreams of high-speed plane designers. It is no mere landmark, no mere handy figure for public relations officers. It is basic: the speed with which a "compression wave" (whether a faint whisper or the crushing shock wave of an atomic explosion) moves through air. The actual speed varies considerably with the air's temperature (the colder the slower). To eliminate this variability from their figuring, scientists have given the speed of sound a special name. In aerodynamics, the speed of sound in any air under...
...troublesome speed begins just below Mach I. When a wing is moving at, say, Mach .80, the air passing over it has to hurry to get around its bulge. If, in doing this, it reaches Mach I, violent things may happen. The smooth airflow breaks into turbulence as hard shock waves jump around on the wing (see cut). The drag increases enormously; the wing's lift drops. The buffeting from the irregular airflow may be strong enough to tear the wing apart. This sometimes happens when a fast subsonic airplane dives too rapidly. The results are hard...