Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leading bird in Ben Schriever's ICBM arsenal, Convair's Atlas, is scheduled for test-firing for the first time at Florida's Patrick Air Force Base this spring. This does not mean that the ICBM is ready for the 5,000 mile trip that will carry it 500 miles up into space. The first test will be over an 1,800 mile course at a lower altitude, primarily to check aerodynamic characteristics...
...Poor's pres ent daily and weekly indexes (the daily will be discontinued), e.g., the market value of a company's stock is multiplied by the number of shares outstanding, to get the issue's current value, then compared to a total market value in a base year...
...remedy this discrepancy. Standard & Poor's will compile its total on a base of 10 instead of the present 100, junk the present 1935-39 base years in favor of a 1941-43 base, when the average price of a single stock was $10. Thus, the new index will start off with a figure very close to the actual average price of one share of stock, and its fluctuations will accurately reflect the price fluctuations in the market as a whole...
...Sciences." For the purpose of the individual tutorial system, the Committee's recommendations for a rigid system of academic advancement meant that there would be fewer tutors, and, in that sense, the grand beginnings of tutorial were destroyed. The Committee, nevertheless, did perform the necessary function of reducing the base of the academic pyramid, which had swollen out of all proportion to the number of permanent appointments at the apex...
...impression created by frontpage stories recounting the reunion of Queen Elizabeth and her husband in Portugal after his return from a four-month cruise through the Commonwealth. No less than 150 eager pressmen elbowed one another aside on the tarmac at Lisbon's Montijo Military Air Base as the Queen's gleaming Viscount transport headed...