Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Relative" was the key word in the response of Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House. Perkins pointed out that student-faculty contacts "are certainly far better than they were before the Houses were built. On the other hand, there is certainly room for improvement...
...Beam. To build a true, fishlike sub, the Navy scrapped all remaining vestiges of surface-ship design. The first test vehicle was the Albacore, built in 1953-a small (200 ft.) diesel-electric boat with extra-powerful batteries and a fat, well-streamlined hull. The Albacore's purpose was to use battery power extravagantly in short underwater spurts and find out what a true submarine could do. The performance was so good that the next step was obvious: to combine a nuclear engine with an Albacore hull...
...people until about 3,000 B.C., when the cultures of Mesopotamia moved slowly north. But the walled village seems to be as old as anything in Mesopotamia, and heaped-up debris under it hints that the place was occupied by civilized town-dwellers 500 years before the walls were built. So man's first, faltering civilization may have spread from Anatolia to Mesopotamia and later Greece...
BRITISH ATOM SUB reactor will be built by Westinghouse, first such reactor to be sent abroad. Westinghouse got contract because no British firms build the pressurized water reactor found best for subs. British firms have been concentrating on large generators for power stations...
...found "the import duty [12% to 17%] is adequate to protect U.S. manufacturers against differences in labor costs." What about national security? Replied TVA: Total war would probably knock out foreign and U.S. plants alike, thus "early repair or replacement would seem unlikely no matter where the unit was built...