Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atlas attempt last month had ended in an ignominious mid-air explosion two minutes after launch. No such trouble dogged last week's test. With the loudest bull bellow the cape has heard yet, the Atlas rose from its pad on 360,000 Ibs. of thrust (150,000 each from the two out board booster engines, 60,000 from the central sustainer). Hitting mach 10 just 132 seconds up, the boosters abruptly shut off and dropped away with their skirts. The central sustaining engine roared another 120 seconds or so, shoved the missile to its apogee 400 miles...
...Honors program," explained Pusey, will attempt to improve the quality of Harvard education by an "increased emphasis on challenging every student to do his best." Under the program, almost all students will be considered candidates for Honors during their first two years of college...
This questionnaire will attempt to determine students' opinions of the courses they are taking during the summer: quality of the lectures and reading lists, severity of exams, value of papers, etc. These will be distributed in the Union on Friday and will be collected next Monday evening at 7 p.m. Again, honesty (no names needed) will be requested...
Eight other universities have received similar assistance in an attempt to "encourage independent institutions with special national obligations for educational excellence...
Miss Colombia came in a peppier package. Officially measuring two inches shorter than Miss U.S.A. and looking even less than that, she made no attempt to disguise the fact that she measured 35½-23½-35½ and was proud of it. She was poised, but it was poise with a background warmth. "She has nothing but love in her heart for the man she will some day marry," said her mother, and the inner fires certainly impressed the judges...