Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Short-Range Solutions
Several methods of increasing present capacity have been suggested by parties concerned with the problem. They can conveniently be grouped under short-range and long-range solutions, with the dividing line being whether or not there is any major encroachment on landscape areas...
...Worlds to Conquer. Fresh from a financial knockout of Promoter James D. Norris, the promise of $255,000 of television money and 45% of the gate safely in his pocket, Ray was as cocky as ever. A blue, short-billed cap perched on his handsome head, a two-tone windbreaker zipped up against the mist from the lake, he smiled benevolently at his subjects. "After 17 years of boxing, all fights are the same," said Sugar with unlimited self-assurance. "The burden of proof is on Basilio. I've got the title, and he's got to come...
Just as angry was BOAC's Managing Director Basil Smallpeice, who let Bristol have it on the chin. When Bristol's short-range Britannia 102s finally went into service from London to Johannesburg last February, said Smallpeice, they were 19 months late, which held down BOAC's net profit in fiscal 1956 to $850,000. Yet the 102's tendency to ice at high altitudes has still not been licked. During 1956, Bristol tried to correct the icing, which caused dangerous flameouts. Finally, it devised a still not entirely satisfactory solution: a platinum glow plug "pilot...
That is how one lag (longterm convict) apostrophized Australia in the early years of the last century, when the continent was turned into a British penal colony (a direct consequence of the American Revolution, after which British convicts could no longer be transported to the American Colonies). In short order, the very names of New South Wales and Botany Bay were enough to send a shiver up the spine of a London pickpocket or Galway poacher. In a brilliant fictionalized reconstruction of this period, Irish Artist-Writer Robert Gibbings has produced that most ingratiating of books-a tragedy with...