Word: actually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kinds of Harvard committee come in--standing committees and special committees. There are, at present, 37 standing committees within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. They exist, in general, to maintain those parts of Harvard that either cross the boundaries of academic departments--or are not closely related to actual instruction...
SFAC was established to be such a political channel. Its actual achievements during the year have been meagre, but the very fact of its continued existence as a body will provide a certain legitimacy for the Committee on which it could build in the future...
...device the Navy relies upon to rescue deep-sixed submariners is ancient and inadequate: the McCann rescue chamber, an "undersea elevator" that can remove only eight men at a time from subs in 850 ft. of water or less. Devised in the 1920s, it was last used in an actual undersea rescue when Squalus went down off Portsmouth, N.H., in 1939.* Development of a "Deep-Submergence Rescue Vehicle," begun in 1965 in the wake of the Thresher tragedy two years earlier, has been delayed until late 1970 by technical and budgetary problems. When it is completed, the Navy will have...
...peak of which is enemy territory. There is room at the top, but along the way many good devils die, and Holden comes to realize the cost of his merciless goading. As a mainstream tough-and-rumble military movie, The Devil's Brigade-which is based on actual events-offers few new sights or insights. After nearly three decades of World War II films, it is hardly surprising that Hollywood is beginning to suffer from combat fatigue...
...several hundred dollars and getting away from wife and family were worth a forty hour week). And because the choice of the base figures may be rather arbitrary, there are bound to be inequities. The problem of equity becomes more acute the closer the base figure comes to the actual amount necessary to maintain a standard of living that could be described as middle class. The position of the middle class worker may be ill-informed, but it is not irrational. If he must work long hours, often at dull jobs, for his living; he may rightly think it unfair...