Word: veiled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blood leaves the brain and sinks to the stomach. Loss of blood in the brain produces a "grey veil" before the pilot's eyes, later, a brief blackout. Best way to resist centrifugal force is to lie on the back. It might be good physics, continued Dr. von Diringshofen, to install a tilting seat in fighting planes which would enable fliers to lean backwards. But it would be bad psychology. For in "a hot and heavy fight" a man on his back would lose all fighting spirit...
After Tap Day a Bones man takes the veil, spends most of his time with fellow Bones men. Twice each week (Thursday and Saturday or Sunday evenings) they meet for a hearty dinner and secret ritual in a bronze-doored, brownstone, windowless "tomb" in a dark corner of the campus...
...Tuskegee Big Jim placed a wreath on the Booker T. Washington monument (Washington lifting a -veil from the eyes of a startled slave). Then he greeted frail old George Washington Carver, ate fried chicken, reviewed a parade. After Negro Tenor Roland Hayes had made his radio debut in a broadcast from Boston, Mr. Farley compared Booker T. to George Washington, to Robert E. Lee, shook many a black hand, visited the founder's grave, went on to Auburn. Mr. Farley ate chicken once again (he hates it), entrained for Atlanta, with Georgia and North Carolina...
Governor Homer Adams Holt of West Virginia, faint kin to U. S. Senator Rush Holt, donned old lace and a veil, clutched a large bouquet in a Charleston Junior League revue called Dream of a Clown. Flower girls to His Excellency's bride were former Governor Herman Guy Kump and Walter Eli Clark, Charleston publisher and onetime Governor of Alaska...
LONDON--The 10,002-ton British liner Dumbar Castle, carrying 230 passengers and crow members, was wrecked by a mine in the English Channel today while German warplanes, striking from behind a veil of mist, bombed and machine-gunned at least 14 ships in British North Sea waters, sinking three of them...