Word: tunnel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...esoteric calculations known only to Egyptologists, Dr. Ghoneim tried to figure where the long-forgotten entrance might be. His laborers poked into the sand and at last found a rubble-choked tunnel slanting down into the hill. Bit by bit the debris was cleared away. The tunnel extended into the living rock and apparently reached a dead end 121 ft. from the entrance. Dr. Ghoneim, wise in such matters, was not discouraged, and eventually he uncovered the entrance of a second tunnel. Unlike the first, it was not barren. Ranged along it were the doorways of 120 separate chambers, some...
...Tunnel of Love, by Peter De Vries. A punny farce about sin and redemption in suburban Connecticut (TIME...
...Frost wanted a vertical take-off-which is quite a trick. Even such a powerful jet engine as Pratt & Whitney's J-57, with about 10,000 Ibs. of thrust, can barely lift its own weight vertically. After countless wind-tunnel tests, Frost finally found what he thinks is a solution in an aerodynamic principle known as "the Coanda effect...
...TUNNEL OF LOVE (246 pp.)-Peter De Vries-Little, Brown...
...conductor and narrator of this particular trip through The Tunnel of Love is a slap-happy cartoon editor named Dick. He sometimes wanders off the track to a dream cottage and holds imaginary conversations with beautiful women: "I like . . . deep woods and the smell of pine," one beauty murmurs. "I love pine." "I love yew," whispers Dick...