Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...methodically to build the world's best steamer. He and I went to California Institute of Technology and conferred with Dr. Robert Millikan,* its president and the 1923 Nobel Prizewinner in physics. Hughes told Dr. Millikan that he wanted to employ two of his brightest engineering graduates, men with creative imagination. Dr. Millikan recommended two young men, named Burns and Lewis...
...brightest of all the Olympic stars was a Dutchman: Speed Skater Ard Schenk. Like Jean-Claude Killy, the Gallic glamour boy of the 1968 games, the dashingly handsome Schenk won three gold medals and the unofficial beefcake award. Crowds of more than 40,000 packed the Mako-manai Speed-Skating Rink to see the big (6 ft. 3 in.. 200 Ibs.), blond and blue-eyed Schenk easily overpower his competition at 1.500 and 5,000 meters with his powerfully rhythmic strides. Then, while Dutch fans clopped their wooden shoes and shouted "Heya! Heya! Ard Schenk!" he covered...
...finish teacher-preparation courses this semester, but only a projected 8,000 new teaching positions will be created in the nation's schools. Balancing that, newly minted accountants remain in high demand, followed closely by students who will receive master's degrees in business administration. Prospects are brightest of all for female graduates who plan to sign on with large corporations. Endicott figures that Women's Lib-conscious companies will be hiring 15% more Ms.'s this year...
...Isaac Hayes is the brightest new black pop star in the U.S., the composer of the hit song from the movie Shaft (now in the top five on the charts) and a singer whose last four LPs have all been what the trade calls "platinum" disks (earning $2,000,000 wholesale...
Herrnstein believes that brilliant women make contented housewives and productive mothers. Earlier he says the contention "that the education of women could remove the brightest potential mothers from the breeding stock receives no support in these results." The sexism of this argument runs deep. He chooses a woman with a phenomenal I.Q. of 192 (about one in 500,000 have such I.Q.'s) to represent all women. He then chooses to ignore all available data which prove there is no correlation between contentment and occupational status or income. From this he leaves the reader with the subtle aftertaste that this...