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Firefly One's crew dropped the flares through three-foot metal tubes, ripping off a strip of white webbing that ignited each flare and opened its parachute. Suddenly the valley below, surrounded by paddy fields striding up sharp-shadowed mountains, leaped into garish light. Bandbox identified the target-an east-west ridge with a saddle in the middle-and Firefly called down an Invader. The Invader pilot, however, could not find the target ridge. "Okay, boy," said Firefly, 'Til turn on my landing lights and point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN ASIA,THE AIR WAR: Night into Day | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...brand new, $3,600 steel and concrete traffic box, topped off by a three-foot copper spindle will rise on the Square within three weeks, weather permitting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three-Foot Copper Spire Will Top Concrete Traffic Pagoda in Square | 2/1/1951 | See Source »

Well, sir, Eliot House is safe, anyway. Several years ago they put up a row of three-foot metal posts in front of Winthrop House where Mill Street meets Holyoke. No Russian tank will reach Eliot from the East without quite a struggle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: If War Comes . . . | 3/25/1950 | See Source »

Prosecutor Phinney spent much of the morning belittling Ford's medical experience and hinting that he had withheld some of Mrs. Borroto's remains from State experts. In answer to this last attack, the defense was forced to produce a three-foot vein from her exhumed body and show it to the jury during lunch recess...

Author: By John J. Sack, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Full Day of Intensive Cross-Examination Fails to Shake Professor Ford's Testimony | 3/9/1950 | See Source »

...Nudists of the American Sunbathing Association worked out a neat solution to the problem of a Peeping Tom who was eyeing their convention in Colorado's Deer Creek Canyon through a three-foot telescope. They trapped him, escorted him down out of the brush, made him take off his clothes, then invited him to stare all he wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Aug. 15, 1949 | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

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