Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock: For those who want to study about an English king who lost his head, about Puritans and bawds, Professor Jordan recreates the happy days of the Stuarts in History 140b in Longfellow Alumnae Room. Along slightly different lines, Professor Barker from the University of Virginia discourses on the philosophy of science (Philosophy 149) in Emerson...
...businessmen themselves have stepped in to police retailers. Better Business Bureaus, ad agencies and manufacturers, who know that nothing destroys consumer confidence faster than a fake bargain, have distributed 500,000 copies of FTC's pricing guide-and printed thousands more at their own expense-to retailers along with strong letters urging them to comply...
Since then, McDonnell has come along fast. From a strictly Navy supplier, the company became a pillar of the Air Force with $1.2 billion worth of orders for its burly F101 Voodoo jet, a plane fast (1,200 m.p.h.) and versatile enough to perform every job from tactical A-bomber to all-weather interceptor. McDonnell went into missiles and helicopters, landed an $8,000,000 contract for its XV1 convertiplane, another $45 million for its high-speed Quail bomber decoy drone. Latest project: the supersonic (Mach 2 plus) F4H fighter, which beat out Chance Vought's F8U3 Crusader...
...determined to win a place on the planets for his company. A tireless worker (eleven hours a day, six days a week) and an omnivorous reader, he devours everything on space he can find, scans every proposal in such microscopic detail that section chiefs must bring along their junior engineers to answer his pinpoint questions...
...pyramid" was thought to hold the mummy of Sekhem-Khet, but the pink alabaster sarcophagus within proved empty. Why empty? Goneim thought it was intended for the Sed Festival (a ceremony which supposedly reinvigorated the old Pharaohs) or as a tomb for the ka, the invisible double who went along everywhere as the secret sharer of an ancient Egyptian's life and death...