Word: hatched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese National Aviation Corp., formerly a U.S. Navy search pilot, spiraled the plane down to 200 feet and leveled off to drop our 11,000-lb. cargo of rice. Six soldiers, moving stiffly in heavily padded khaki uniforms, wrestled the 50-lb. rice bags to the open hatch, tumbled them out and watched them land in tiny puffs of dust in a walled compound near the field...
Back at the airstrip, our escorts fidgeted nervously and kept glancing at the Communist-held hills as darkness settled down. As we winged back through the night, the wind from the open hatch spun the dust on the floor in a whirlpool, picked up a small cardboard tag torn off a shipping crate. The tag told the poignant story of the rapidity of China's retreat: It said: "To Mukden...
...same purpose it did before 1937--a reward for students who have done good work in general studies. The English Department bases its recommendations almost entirely on marks. Other departments require a strong excuse for not doing a thesis, fearing that the degree may degenerate into an escape-hatch from theses. Still others, such as Economics, have virtually done away with the degree, except for veterans who returned to college too late to write a thesis...
This temporary code might be called Harvard's Hatch Act, and like any law, it should first of all be detailed and specific. It is not enough to state that location of rallies will be fixed by the Dean's Office. Students must know exactly what streets, what steps, what squares they may invade. Just as the ban on Yard against sound trucks at Stillman should be patently clear. And if the Dean's Office is going to say "Stop" and "Go" to College publications, it should broadcast the whys and wherefores ahead of time. Last term there were charges...
Airports. The Port of New York Authority bought New Jersey's 500-acre, ten-hangar Teterboro Air Terminal. This closed the last escape hatch for airlines that objected to the Authority's landing fees at Idlewild and hoped to take off on transatlantic flights from Teterboro (TIME, July 12). Price: $3,115,000. Teterboro's owner, Frederick L. Wehran, got the property...