Word: attainability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Control by Blow-Off. To hit a distant target accurately, a long-range ballistic missile must be steered in the right direction and must attain the right speed. If it is traveling 23,000 ft. per sec. (15,600 m.p.h.), an error of I ft. per sec. in its top speed will make it miss its target by 500 yds. So when the desired speed has been reached, the thrust must be cut off accurately in a small fraction of a second. This is not too difficult with liquid-fuel rockets, whose thrust can be cut by shutting...
...have "the maximum opportunity to develop their potentiality independently of one another." Still he maintains that there are no longer American Chinese of high enough caliber to teach their children about the "glorious traditions" of China. For the American Negro he recommends study of African rhythm and sculpture. To attain his ends he seeks "segregation in elementary and high school education and also in housing," but opposes it in sports, transportation and recreation facilities...
...Passed-On Mules." If the church-owned Monitor does not always attain its ideal balance, it is because it agrees with the Christian Scientists who comprise 85% of its readership (and 90% of its staff) that disease, death and violence are mortal "errors." Thus the Monitor gives only token coverage to top medical stories such as the Salk vaccine; it sternly downplays disaster and crime. It shuns error-prone society and show-business chitchat and runs the world's tersest obituaries (omitting the cause of death and names of survivors...
December. In a Christmas address from the White House, President Eisenhower will say that he has recovered from his recent illness and that in the forthcoming year, this nation, with the help of God, Motherhood, Sherman Adams and the caddy at the Burning Tree Golf Club, will attain greater heights than ever. He will deny that he is leading an all-out Army offensive against the Air Force controlled Pentagon...
...more and more requirements. The aim of such plans as qualifying examinations, required tutorial as a fourth course, is not requirements for their own sake, of course, but greater difficulty and prestige for honors work. One cannot quarrel with this goal, but the means by which some would attain it are alarming...