Word: equality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outstripped the U.S." Amid shouts of post-toasty laughter, he ridiculed the U.S. space satellites as apelsin-sputniks -orange-sized Sputniks. "By all the rules of arithmetic," he crowed, "we can see that they [the U.S.] will need a mighty big basket to hold enough of these oranges to equal our Sputnik...
...Forces. The human body can stand travel at any rate of speed provided that it is constant. What hurts is a too-abrupt change in speed or direction. Standard of measurement for such changes is the g (from gravity), which is equal to the acceleration produced by the earth's pull at sea level. Unprotected and in normal sitting position, the body cannot stand more than about 3½ g for more than about 15 seconds. Semisupine, even without a pressure suit, it can stand 6 g for 4½ minutes, as much as 12 g for only...
Critic Pevsner notes that "during precisely the years of the Isenheim altarpiece, Raphael painted the Sistine Madonna." He leaves no doubt that he considers one the equal of the other...
Jaeger hopes that colleges will give his school equal academic rating with conventional, immobile institutions. He has already secured the services of two teachers from Ohio State University, a professor of Botany, and an associate professor of History, and will himself teach Humanities and English...
...solutions to this problem are several, if anyone cares to seek them. It is obvious that the University could allow students to join the other residents of Cambridge on equal terms, parking on one side of the street. But since the University was conceived in a Puritanical tradition which viewed pleasure as sinful and convenience as decadent, such a simple solution is evidently impractical. In any case, it is obviously much more effective to promote town-gown relations by joining the town than by seeking rational solutions to non-existent problems...