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...matter how he tried, he could not pull out of the dive. Sometimes he did not live to tell the tale. Sometimes the demon let go just in time, and the shaken pilot got back to his base to describe his hair-raising experience. Aerodynamicists explained it as "shock waves...
When a body moves with the speed of sound, the air does not yield smoothly. Instead, hard shock waves (sound waves) form. These are no gentle whispers; they are tough, speeding shells of compressed air, powerful enough under certain conditions to tear an airplane to bits...
...debate was supposed to give the young men an opportunity to exercise wit in reopening a question which less emancipated persons had come to regard as closed. Young men like to shock their elders, but these young men really weren't very imaginative in choosing their topic. They could have created a much more profound stir in their community if they had discussed the question, "Resolved, that Harvard University was a mistake." There is much to be said on both sides. --Chicago Tribune, March 28, 1949. Thank you, Colonel McCormick. And now, the affirmative...
...opposition of the Legion to the Conference was inevitable and in keeping with its tradition of shortsighted reaction; the action of the State Department, if not expected, was not a great shock; but the alliance of Schlesinger with the bogus A.I.F. was certainly a surprise in his own community, which has come to think of him as a sober and considered political thinker. The Conference he chose to attack probably won't accomplish anything, thanks to the opposition to it. His opposition is justified on the grounds of personal belief; but more reasoned and more careful disapproval might have carried...
...says Poet-Critic Thomas Stearns Eliot, 1948 Nobel Prizewinner, in the opening pages of his new book. But the reader who thinks this modest pronouncement means that dignified Poet Eliot is going to settle down to a donnish little tussle with Noah Webster had better brace himself for a shock. In Notes Towards the Definition of Culture Eliot advances a view of present-day western civilization that is as pessimistic as his famed post-World War I opus, The Waste Land. What's in a Word? U.S.-born T.S. Eliot migrated to England in 1914, and quickly became what...