Word: valiants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Matthew Ridgway and his valiant men in Korea did all that men could be expected to do-and more. But the Korean war had been in an uneasy stalemate since...
...then gave Western diplomats a few more gray hairs by hinting that events "were about to take their course" in Southeast Asia. It was small wonder that people and newspapers took their minds off these depressing facts for a while to be with Captain Carlsen in his lone and valiant fight against the sea in his cracked, listing, storm-tossed "Flying Enterprise...
...experiment in the laboratory . . . But of what import are the various methods of learning if learning itself has no substance, no corpus of laws, no end? The business of American educators is to seek to establish the nature of man and the universe, and to make a valiant try at formulating the laws that govern each . . . Certainty may elude us, but if we do not try eternally for certainty, there is no point to education, and no need to spend money in sending our boys and girls to school...
Powerful and streamlined, the Valiant looks like an overgrown fighter, with its four jets so completely buried in the wing-roots that it seems to have no engines at all. Said one U.S. Air Force officer: "The damned thing looks as if it were going 600 m.p.h. when it's just sitting still on the runway...
Planes of the Future. The P-1067, Supermarine 508 and Valiant have already reached the production stage. Other standouts: the four-jet Short SA4 bomber, the Vickers Supermarine Swift, giant cargo-carriers, turbo-prop torpedo planes, transports and helicopters. Britain also has newer designs still being developed...