Word: whizzer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lockheed Aircraft Co. last week took some of the wraps off its new entry in the lightweight jet plane race. Called the XF-104 by the Air Force and the "Gee-Whizzer" by Lockheed, the new ship is a small, relatively simple day fighter designed to win local air superiority over the battlefield. Its weight is only about 14,000 Ibs. combat-loaded v. 18,000 for North American's F-86D, but it packs a hefty Curtiss-Wright J-65 engine, blasting out more than 7,200 Ibs. of thrust. The speed is secret. Officially, the Air Force...
...become a powerful symbol in U.S. education. Though most off-campus Americans pretend not to care much about it, most know what it is. Those who wear it can be as different as Franchot Tone and Senator Paul Douglas, as Paul Robeson and Senator Robert Taft, as Byron ("Whizzer") White and Helen Wills Moody. But they all have one thing in common: they got good marks in college...
...moment to see that this is not a unique theory: the University of Chicago abandoned intercollegiate athletic competition some years back, and I see no tangible proof of greater academic strides since then. Obviously, I do not propose that it is possible to assemble eleven Barry Woods or Whizzer Whites. However, I seriously question whether Harvard's academic superiority over its fellow institutions is equal to its exhibited inferiority on the athletic field. And the administration certainly cannot have too much respect for the intelligence of its graduates if it thinks that the alumni are willing to accept...