Conspicuous consumption is a proof of economic success.

This product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.

I'm downright obliged to you, Harry, and to all the rest of the boys, for comin' to help a cripple like me, for we're not very strong-handed now; the boys are gone, and I'm not much 'count any way.

The Meteor, Group Captain [Hugh Joseph] Wilson said, puts its nose up at the shock stall, so that had the aircraft become fully shock stalled during the record runs, the pilot would probably have been able to recover without hitting the sea. But at the speeds achieved—the fastest run recorded being 983 kilometers or 611 m.p.h.—only parts of the Meteor (for instance, the area over the wind screen) were shock stalled.