Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assistant professors. They find themselves obliged to write books to win permanent appointments but without the time in which to do it. Now, through a brand new program of term leaves with pay, assistant professors at Harvard will be able to compete with men at other colleges on an equal or more advantageous basis for permanent appointments here or elsewhere. Young teachers will be given time, short as it is, to write the book so essential to their advance...
...merely follow along the orbit like smaller satellites. They would have to be shot downward to increase their falling rate and allow them to catch up with the curving surface of the earth. Shooting them backward would have a similar effect. If they were shot backward at a speed equal to the satellite's forward speed on its orbit, they would stand still in space for an instant. Then they would fall vertically toward the earth. The whole satellite could be brought down on a target in either of these ways by giving it a powerful push from...
...Council must get rid of the idea that it can suppress information whenever it feels like it. The Council has used the same technique in the past, with equal lack of justification if not with equally flagrant results. Only very rarely does the Council deal with a subject about which information "will be detrimental to the best interests of the College as a whole.' And only then is it justifiable for the Council to close its meetings...
...Dutch had promised an Indonesian federation, with sovereignty and equal partnership in a Dutch commonwealth, but they could not agree with the tough little republic on the necessary interim arrangements or on the final blueprint. Last month, in a final effort to break the knot, a mission from The Hague under Foreign Minister Derek Stikker journeyed to Batavia. The Dutch claimed that the republic was waging a disruptive campaign of kidnaping, murder and arson. The republicans claimed that The Netherlands was trying to set up "puppet states" in some areas of Java and Sumatra which the Dutch had seized from...
Chase National Bank's Joseph E. Pogue agreed. The U.S. was lucky, said he, that the oil industry's profits had been so high. Pogue cited 30 oil companies whose total earnings topped the $2 billion mark. 'The same companies had invested an equal amount (71% of which came from earnings) in new refineries and fields, and had licked the oil shortage...