Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, says DuBridge, science is merely one path to greater understanding. "Men climb Mt. Everest, explore the bottom of the sea, sail to the far corners of the earth, explore the atom, the crystal and the stars-all because they are born explorers . . . Are science and engineering just the tools for man's amusement and for his ultimate destruction? Let us say, rather-and more truthfully-that they are his ... tools in his eternal struggle to achieve his highest ... spiritual ends...
...beans and peas. Outlays for "participant recreation" will be up 36.3%. This rise chiefly reflects the boom in pari-mutuel betting and pinball and slot-machine playing (whose net receipts more than trebled in a decade, to $419 million in 1952). Contributions to political and civic organizations will climb 45.8%. Buying of jewelry and watches will be up 37.2%, foreign travel 53.7%, medical insurance 60.6%, private schooling 101.4%, and airline travel 187.4%. The nation's highways will teem with 59 million cars, 47% more than in 1950. Looking farther ahead, in 1975 the U.S. will be generating...
...army assumed a new and stronger role in Soviet policy? Not knowing all the answers, the White House reacted skeptically to Zhukov's overtures, but kept open a small hedge on the future. The past, in Georgy Zhukov's case, is also instructive. His hazardous climb from Czarist dragoon to Communist marshal, his differences with the military commissars, his fallings in and out of Communist favor, are significant clues to the nature of the instrument he has wielded with such success...
...slump in the past two years. P. Lorillard and American Tobacco, with 40% of U.S. cigarette output, report first-quarter sales increases of 2% to 3%. Largely because of a big jump in filtertips (now 20% of the market), tobacco-men predict that overall cigarette sales will climb 5% above 1954's 368 billion total by year...
...weekend's events will begin with an average-speed rally Saturday morning in which the contestants will try to keep to a specified speed throughout their trip to Gilford. That afternoon a gymkhana, or test of driving skill, will be held. Sunday morning's event will be a hill climb and an additional race will be run in the afternoon. Only the last event is limited to sports cars; the others are open to stock models as well...