Word: caped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...studied previously at Wellesley), then dropped out. Smith's records show that she made "very high" marks in history and natural history, did satisfactorily in her other subjects. But for some reason she left school after a year. Shortly afterward, she is known to have taught music in Cape Town, South Africa. By the turn of the century she was back in Whitinsville, giving piano lessons. In 1906 she sold the house her parents had left her for $15,000, because she needed money. By 1913 she had taken rooms at a local inn and was working as town...
...package of a 12-ft. fiber-glass or aluminum boat, 7½h.p. outboard engine and 600-lb. -capacity auto trailer. Price: $477, with only $48 down. Rhode Island's Pearson Corp. showed off its 28-ft., six-berth auxiliary sloop, Peerless Triton, priced at $9,750, and Cape Cod Shipbuilding exhibited its 23-ft. sloop-rigged Marlin cruising sailboat, which has done well in midget ocean-racing. For those who want to use boats as homes, Evinrude motors displayed a prototype expand-at-will, fiberglass, aluminum and wood houseboat that floats on pontoons, is made...
...hour before word of the Russian shot, the House space committee recommended that the U.S. probe the moon with a couple of Thor-Able rockets now lying at Cape Canaveral. Even after the news from Moscow, Montana's Democratic Senator Mike Mansfield disapproved-"a sign of panic." Underlying the absence of excuses-and the absence of panic-was a general public knowledge that the U.S. had already tried to hit the moon, had failed, had been left trailing by the Russians, but not by very much...
...missilemen at the Pentagon and Cape Canaveral studied the figures, agreed that the Russians were ahead in terms of weight of payload, propulsion power, general rocket reliability. The U.S.S.R.'s rocket was also the first far-out Russian rocket detected by U.S. tracking systems. Whatever their secret launching-pad failures, the Russians apparently scored with the first rocket they got off the ground...
...missile program: "The Russian rockets remind me of simple alarm clocks-you can throw them on the wall and they'll keep on ticking. American missiles are like expensive ladies' wrist watches that look nice but tend to stop frequently." An old missile hand at Cape Canaveral turned to a football figure. The Russians, said he, are now leading in moon shots by 7 to 6-they have converted after the touchdown. He did not need to add that, operationally speaking, missilery is perhaps the one game where peace and safety can be lost to a one-point...