Word: attainability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fred L. Whipple, professor of Astronomy and director of the Smithsonian Observatory, is supervising the entire project of tracking the satellite's path. He said yesterday that since the sphere will attain a maximum height of 800 miles, it will be visible in this area, although it will probably go no further north than Philadelphia...
Parity in the Market Place. Full income parity is a full share in our country's good times. In a free agriculture, farmers can attain that kind of parity only in the market place. That's what I spoke for at Kasson four years ago: the attainment of that full share for the farmer . . . That's what I have been working for. I shall keep on working for it. And the facts show good progress...
...Arthur H. Parmelee Sr.. 73, checked Mary Ann's physical history, tested her for motor ability, environmental adaptiveness and awareness. Dr. Parmelee told the parents that Mary Ann will be able to learn to dress and feed herself and play with other children, but at best will attain only the mentality of a six-or seven-year-old. The father blurted out: "I'll take bets on that, doctor. That baby's going to be all right! And there's no Orientals in our family...
...being served to what President Eliot once called--and his successors still call--'the society of educated men'. Even the olives and cherries, the orange peel, and toothpicks in the glasses seemed to have taken on moral dignities and a sense of mission which they can never hope to attain in the outer illiterate world where they are at the best the unashamed symbols of candid self-indulgence...
...answer to that, Britain had to turn back to the man who had started the whole controversy. "The question," Philologist Ross had said, "is one noticeably of paramount importance for many Englishmen (and for some of their wives). The answer is that an adult can never attain complete success...