Word: straightaways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never intended for bobsleds, the Cresta Run is not "a downhill straightaway" [TIME, Jan. 7], but a winding, downhill and very steep course, three-quarters of a mile long, including eleven banked curves, viz: "First Bank," "Curzon," "Thoma," "Rise," "Battledore," "Shuttlecock," "Stream Corner," "Bulpett," "Scylla," "Charybdis," "The Finish." "Battledore" and "Shuttlecock" are almost S-shaped...
...text from Thomas Jefferson: "The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest." As a subtext he took the lead sentence of a P.A.C. pamphlet advocating Term IV: "politics is the science of how who gets what, when and why." Dewey's speech was a straightaway attack on the veracity of Franklin Roosevelt. He recalled the WPA vote scandals, the attempt to pack the Supreme Court...
Harvard's team was at a disadvantage in that they had no place to practice either the sprints or the hurdles. The practice track has no straightaway for the dashmen, and the hurdlers have had no real opportunity to practice adequately since summer. The encouraging performance, however, in the distances promises a strong nucleus for the next meets...
...line, although the formation is of the orthodox unbalanced variety, things happen a bit differently from the way they do in the orthodox method of line play. There is almost no straightaway blocking, with the Harlow system of angle blocks and mousetraps doing...
Roundabout is Straightaway. Those who attend Presidential press conferences know May Craig as the small, pert woman who always gets to the front row, always asks deft, roundabout questions in a far-from-timid voice. When President Roosevelt's reticence in disclosing his Third Term plans had the U.S. in a dither, May noticed that some of his naval prints had been removed from the conference-room walls. Instead of asking the direct Third...