Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Glover Rueter, Jr. '47, Lampoon president, greeting his well-wishers in his tiled anteroom, boomed expansively, "Our Ibis is back to stay--we made sure of that. We had it filled with special lead to keep it steady--three sheets to the wind, as we sailors...
...John Erskine's The Private Life of Helen of Troy; 1928-Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey; 1931-Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth; 1933-Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse; 1936-Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind...
...Wind for the Tunnels. Last week NACA came fairly clean to a TIME correspondent. It was considering the reports of two committees on a projected cluster of gigantic supersonic wind tunnels. To meet the needs of designers, the air would have to blast through the tunnels at fantastic speed. (One.rumor said 3,500 miles an hour.) To simulate conditions in the outer atmosphere, the whole works would have to be cooled nearly to absolute zero (-459.72° F.) and the air pressure inside reduced almost to absolute vacuum...
...poor. His shocking discovery: the soil was not just poor; most of it was gone, washed down roaring gullies or spirited away by stealthy "sheet erosion." And it was not only the backward South that was threatened with soil destruction. U.S. farmers everywhere, ignoring erosion by water and wind and over-cropping, were squandering the nation's most vital asset...
...Clouds Over Munich 4. The Searching Wind...