Word: passingly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...most of the 52 aboard American Airlines' DC-6 "Arizona," the big speedy plane was less a means of travel than of transition; a kind of big cabinet through which they could pass-with a pleasantly uneventful interval of waiting in the seats inside-from one aspect of the humdrum world to another. At 2:29 in the morning most of them were dozing. The plane, bound from Los Angeles to Chicago and New York, rode 21,000 ft. over the earth at 300 miles an hour, and the dimly lighted cabin was quiet except for the muffled drone...
...early last month, Lou Sebille was leading his squadron of Mustangs in a strike over Hamchang, Korea. A young captain from Texas was flying wing for him. Near Hamchang, the captain and Lou Sebille made a strafing pass at a cluster of Communist vehicles on the road below...
Matter v. Spirit. For one thing, said the Pope, dogma is constantly being defined (as in the forthcoming dogma of the Assumption-TIME, Aug. 28). For another, the encyclical letters were themselves designed to clarify certain questions and so make further speculation on them unnecessary. If the encyclicals "pass judgment on a matter up to that time under dispute, it is obvious that the matter . . . cannot be any longer considered a question open to discussion...
...first faculty member called to service is Stephen M. Parrish, teaching follow in English. He was activated as a lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve three weeks ago and is now in Washington. Thomas E. Crooks '49, assistant dean of freshmen, has been called up and passed a preliminary physical examination for the reserves, but McGeorge Bundy, lecturer in Government, failed to pass his test when called up for a similar examination...
...Hard Times. The Authors Lockridge (who own three Siamese) would rather see all the world's ailurophobes pass away than think for a second of removing a single cat. Nonetheless, for all their felinophilia, they approach the cat question with fairness and restraint, setting forth their arguments in a manner that is always urbane and suave, rarely downright catty...