Word: washouts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army airmen, Navy instructors find that the first stages of their courses often prove baffling. But after catching the hang of language, speed and precision, the British students average out about the same as American boys, with a few crack pilots, plenty above average, none that are dopes; the washout system takes care of that...
...Blitzkrieg is a washout." So boasted Foreign Vice Commissar Solomon A. Lozovsky, Russia's rambunctious spokesman...
Considerable controversy has taken place during the vacation regarding the failure of Comet Cunningham to show up more clearly. Professor William H. Barton of New York's Hayden Planetarium has ridiculed it as "a washout and a rank failure...
...yard and the two mile run are unsettled, although the Cornell entry of Phil Hoag, John Ayer, or Nat White will he favored. Penn Tuttle and Langdon Burwell, two strong distance men, will be Harvard's protection against an Ithaca washout...
...athletes to compete against 14 show-ring jumpers. With riders to "lift" them, horses have been known to jump almost 9 ft. high. Bareback, few have ever equaled .man's best high-jumping record: 6 ft. 9¾ in. Last week's contest was a washout. Horse's highest jump: 6 ft. 2 in. Man's highest jump...