Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...dangerous each season . . . leading to a brutalization of players and spectators alike." As a prime example of capitalist brutality at work, Low recalled the cheer of his own Brooklyn high school (Brooklyn Technical): "Ram 'em, bam 'em, rock 'em, sock 'em, hit 'em hard, hit 'em low, c'mon Tech...
...from Korea and India, a dark Madonna and Child from Africa. But among the moderns of Europe and the U.S., a preoccupation with the Christian theme is still the rare exception; the main streams and the main schools follow other and worldlier concerns. Even among the exceptions it is hard to find anything with the radiance of John Donne's lines...
...home-grown brand of Kentuckian is not necessarily as lean, long and hard-driving as the University of Kentucky's Basketball Coach Adolph Rupp would like, but there are other states: each year dozens of slat-shaped aspirants from all over the U.S. trek to Rupp's office in Lexington, many of them at their own expense, to try out for Rupp's team. The 1948 crop (four Kentuckians, eight outlanders) was particularly potent; it won the national championship, and its starting five went on to the U.S. Olympic squad and later to professional careers. Last year...
Automatic pilots are in common use in such large, slow-reacting airplanes as airliners and bombers, but none of the conventional models was alert enough to fly a jet fighter. None was small enough either. A jet fighter is practically "solid"; it is hard to find a vacant cubic inch to stow additional equipment...
...Aeronautics Administration said soothingly last week that such disasters are no great peril just now, because airliners do not fly high enough. But cruising altitudes are increasing. In an effort to make airplane manufacturers fully conscious of future dangers, the CAA made a movie which chilled the blood of hard-boiled air designers...