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Pioneer III was designed to attain a top speed of 24,486 m.p.h. This would have been enough to toss it free of the earth's gravitation and make it a satellite (or burned-up victim) of the sun. The actual speed attained, 23,606 m.p.h., was only enough to carry the gold cone 66,654 miles from the earth. It reached its high point in 20 hours of travel. Then it fell back. Gathering speed again in its long fall, it hit the earth about 20 hours later in a brief streak of flame in the night...
...sense outweigh science. We want both in our entering students: a background that is broad culturally and a preparation in basic science, specifically chemistry, biology and mathematics. The old unconcern for liberal arts has vanished. We want a man to be intellectually mature, and we recognize that he cannot attain that status taking nothing but science courses...
...forms is a concern with important social questions which insures that he will always write about something worth reading about; since Rome burns every day, a cry of "Fire!" has a certain sort of interest that simple fiddling can never attain. And it means that even the least of his plays has a vitality, an urgency, that could not exist if the author were not passionately involved with every line. "Passion" is a frequently debased word in our time, but Bernard Shaw has reminded us of the existence of a moral passion that can be no less strong than...
Quincy House will also alleviate somewhat the large number of converted rooms. The Administration will "start" to attain the normal ratio of one bedroom to one student, but the construction of Quincy House will not at all bring this about, he added...
...following year saw another brief venture entitled The Crucible. It had three editors who announced that they proposed "to give an opportunity to publish essays or reports that have been written in the various courses, for many of them attain a degree of excellence of which we may well be proud." The Crucible, too, endured but one year...