Word: construct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About one-fourth of the money will be used to construct the Science Center, planned for the corner of Kirkland and Oxford St. The Center will include classrooms, laboratories, offices, a library, and computation facilities...
Though remaining silent about exact design details, Miller said that the general idea was to construct the front end so that it would, in case of a head-on collision, crumple and be shortened by 24 in. Through an optimum setup of framing, wheels, fenders, hood, engine and other components, Ford Safety Engineer Harold Brilmyer aims to "work out a sequential arrangement so that everything collapses in a prearranged form." This may sound like small comfort, but it could extend the duration of the typical collision from 90 milliseconds to 125 milliseconds, cut impact forces...
Taking the Hint. Having won their struggle with the Federal Government with such heady results, the new-found tycoons of Tyonek were ready for other challenges. When their decision to construct a $1,000,000 office building in Anchorage was blocked by the city council, the Indians pointedly went to Seattle to buy $1,500,000 worth of home furnishings. Local merchants took the hint, pressured the authorities in Anchorage into issuing a permit for the building-whose first tenant will be the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Tyonek next outflanked an electrical cooperative that had been pushing for higher rates...
...cultural rapprochement. "How can one forget," he said, "that the great academy I am visiting today is the successor of one founded by Peter the Great in 1725? Later, the same drive that inspired Czar Peter carried you to Siberia, to discover great riches: oil, gas, metals. And to construct new cities. Let Soviet and French science unite for the progress of man. as Russia and France unite for the peace of the world...
...increased 20% to 316,000, and nearly half of all posts have largely abandoned hiking and camping to concentrate instead on such businesslike specialties as engineering, banking and merchandising. Houston's Explorer Post 997 is sponsored by Esso Production Research Co., whose scientists are helping Charles Haskett, 16, construct a laser...