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Word: cupped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cost of putting a pound into earth orbit from the current $500 to $50. To help achieve this breakthrough, NASA has three different rockets on its drawing boards: Tri-Maran (a reusable three-stage booster whose stages are mounted side by side instead of atop each other); Dixie Cup (with a low-cost, discardable, solid-fuel first stage), and the Big Dumb Booster (so called because it has neither guidance equipment nor complicated fuel pumps and plumbing). A Nerva nuclear engine, which will be used only after a rocket has left the atmosphere, is being test-fired at Jackass Flats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Is the Moon the Limit for the U.S.? | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

Predictably, Harvard's heavies have been seeded number two behind the powerful Penn boat which beat them by a length and a half in the Adams Cup race last week. It was the Crimson's first lost to a college crew since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heavies, Lights Row In Eastern Sprints | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

Penn finally beat Harvard. The unpeaceful Quakers put it all together and romped to a length and a half victory over the heavies last Saturday on the wind-blown Schuylkill River. Navy came in third in the 2000-meter Adams Cup Race (a contest Harvard hadn't lost in the last five years...

Author: By Peter D. Lennon, | Title: Penn Whips Heavies; Ends Streak at 34 | 5/5/1969 | See Source »

...outcome of the Eastern Sprints already been settled? The Adams Cup race was supposed to be a true indication of what will happen in Worcester. But there are a number of considerations that have to be kept in mind concerning the performance of both Harvard and Penn, before one builds Penn into the next Eastern Champion or consigns Harvard to the proverbial watery grave...

Author: By Peter D. Lennon, | Title: Penn Whips Heavies; Ends Streak at 34 | 5/5/1969 | See Source »

Partially salvaging the most disastrous weekend for Harvard crew in years, the varsity lightweights defeated Yale and Princeton Saturday on the Charles to win their 12th straight Goldthwait Cup...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Lights Brighten Weekend By Smashing Yale and Princeton | 5/5/1969 | See Source »

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