Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arrival in Babylon. "Never once did I feel like a stranger. Most New Yorkers speak as bad English as I do. They all understood me perfectly well. I tell the customs man I am a Brazilian professor proceeding to Vassar. One said to me: 'O.K., Prof. Got any Brazilian stamps?' I gave him some. He did not look at my baggage. They have a high opinion of professors in America...
...Hungry Speed Animal. Above Mach i, thinks the NACA, another and stranger type of jet engine begins to come into the picture. This is the "ram-jet," which used to be called the "flying stovepipe" before its proper design was found to be enormously difficult. The ramjet does look simple. It is a hollow cylinder open at both ends and subtly shaped inside. When it is moving rapidly, the air coming in the nose is compressed as if by the compressor of the turbojet. Fuel is burned near the point of highest compression. The energy added to the compressed...
Bigart was warned to employ the strictest konspiratsia, "that favorite Balkan term for secrecy." Next day the stranger brought a guide, a stocky, studious youth named John. He told Bigart to buy a ticket to Rome and get an Italian visa, to make things look legitimate, then...
...Hilarius is a trim 23 foot job, and according to Smart, is one of the fastest hulls in the country, costing a cool $2, 250. His father is no stranger to top flight racing, having brought his boat "Melody" in fourth in the 1942 World Championship Star meeting. He also holds the Bacardi Cup for a victory in Havana...
...Welcome, Stranger. American Broadcasting Co., third largest (267 affiliated stations) and only privately owned major U.S. network, will soon let the public invest in it. To help pay off a $4,000,000 bank loan and raise money for television expansion, Chairman Edward J. (Life Savers) Noble will sell 500,000 shares of stock...