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...common use in such large, slow-reacting airplanes as airliners and bombers, but none of the conventional models was alert enough to fly a jet fighter. None was small enough either. A jet fighter is practically "solid"; it is hard to find a vacant cubic inch to stow additional equipment...
...insurance policies and other documents microfilmed at Examiner headquarters for 25?/ apiece. The Examiner promised, in addition, to deposit one copy safely in a vault in Colorado Springs. One Examiner reader was unimpressed. Said he: "To hell with my insurance policy. I wish they'd microfilm me and stow me away until it's all over. My letters can stand a lot more of a beating than...
...Crimson debaters lost to Boston College last night in an exhibition contest before the Stow Civic Society on the question. "Resolved: that Communist China be recognized. "The affirmative, taken by George I. Mulhern '51 and Alex A. Lichauce '51, received 47 audience votes to Boston College...
...camp, and then escaped into the nearby pine forest. Dressed in the clothing of French workmen, Peter and John caught the night train to Frankfurt, while their companion, disguised as a traveling salesman, hit out for Danzig. In Stettin Peter and John had no end of trouble trying to stow away aboard a Swedish ship, finally accepted a Danish crew boss's offer to smuggle them into Denmark and hand them over to the Danish underground. Half a dozen harrowing adventures later, they reached the British consulate in Göteborg, Sweden, to learn that their fellow escapee...
...boats maintained an air of spinsterish respectability. The night boat took on a raffish tilt. It became the favorite vehicle of newlyweds and not-yet-weds, of petty coggers and straw-hatted drummers. Later, vacationists bound for the Adirondacks still patronized it, grateful that they could stow their cars in its hold and their young in its berths...