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...Russians Ahead? Around the Coanda effect, Avro's Frost created a startling design shaped like a saucer, 40 ft. in diameter, with a squat jet engine in the middle and a bubble cockpit perched above. From the engine's 35 burner tubes blasts would radiate to 180 exhaust ports all around the saucer's edge. To apply the Coanda effect the pilot needs some kind of movable control over one lip of each exhaust. To take off he would set these controls to deflect the blasts downward. The downblasts carry along with them more air from above...
Tower-struck freshmen will still complain about the building's squat, bulging appearance. But Latin-chalked facades do not an outhouse make, while big rooms and closeness seem to insure a satisfied full house. With a system of assignment to Claverly as indiscriminate as assignment to an A or F entry, the Hall should continue to serve its useful, respected purpose. There is nothing radical in a revolution that can achieve such ends...
...unimpressed it was the scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute of most descents (Piccard fell asleep on one) the Institute has generally eschewed the dramatic single man exploits and worked instead with teams of scientists in a matter-of-fact litter of colorful instruments. In place of the squat and formidible Bathyscaphe most of the material gathering for the institute is done by the unique Atlantis, a graceful one hundred and forty-two foot steel ketch...
Amid beer mugs and squat oak tables, a group of Lampon pundits gathered solemnly in 1901 to discuss a new proposal. The Lampoon, despite its ample "beer nights," had cleared one-thousand dollars that year, and the Treasurer hoped to use the money to begin a building fund. The idea was accepted enthusiastically, for Lampy had already outgrown two homes, Thayer Hall and a room on Mt. Auburn Street. The third location, a small closet in a former Holyoke Street church, was equally unsatisfactory...
...only solution, Hooton says, is for these "stringbeans" to marry short girls. For example, girls like the short, squat French-Canadians that Hunt mentioned...