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...anticipated total is close to 200 men less than the Fall's 4,670, and is in line with the post-war downward trend. Four thousand seven hundred men registered at this time last year, 5,100 the year before. But the final figure will still be considerably over Provost Buck's goal...
...Aerojet into a brief downward glide. Commercial airlines shied away from Jato because of the cost (the $185 bottle can only be used once) and the fact that the take-off roar scared spectators. But military orders sent Aerojet soaring again-jet planes such as the B-47 use 18 Jato units for a quick takeoff...
...other hand, a few pages later the following passage occurs: "Harvard provides husbands for over seventy percent of all Radcliffe women--and the figures range downward from there for all the other girls' schools in the vicinity. Some claim that this is a good thing, as no one else would have a Harvard man. We have heard several wives of Harvard men express approximately this opinion. 'No one else would have a Harvard man,' they...
...than it was last winter. So far the $1,217,000 of Brink's haul has bought only three things: an open season on armored trucks, a few Hallowe'en mask robberies, and a noticeable decline of crime in Massachusetts. Robberies in the Boston area took a noticeable downward trend after January 17 last, when seen men "of medium height and weight," clad in navy pea jackets and wearing grotesque Hallowe'en masks, carried out the largest cash robbery in American history. The records of what the local newspapers like to call "Boston's crack Criminal Investigation Department" show very...
...chamber in operation, the felt under its cover is saturated with methyl (wood) alcohol. The alcohol vapor diffuses downward, becoming colder as it approaches the dry ice at the bottom. At some point in its downward motion it makes the air supersaturated. In this sensitive layer, cosmic rays or other fast-moving atomic particles leave trails that show up in a flashlight beam as brilliant white streaks...