Word: failed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still undergoing tests. Its first stage, an adaptation of the Navy's Viking, has to work perfectly to do the job: the engine's 27,000-lb. thrust is barely powerful enough to orbit a 21½-lb. ball, so any less-than-ideal performance will fail. (To send up their Sputnik the Russians apparently used a first-stage missile with a thrust of more than...
Beanballs & Bats. The Yankees found it a sad and ironic way to learn something new about the slim (6 ft. 2 in., 180 Ibs.) man with the ice-blue eyes who had come up through their farm system only to fail as a Yankee starter in 1950. The next year they had been only too happy to toss Burdette into a $50,000 deal to get Pitcher Johnny Sain from the Braves as pennant insurance...
...operation; gross profits (not including extra rent, power, clerical help, etc.) amounted to only .6% of service revenue despite all the public griping about exorbitant repair prices. Independent repair shops do better-they must to stay in business-yet even their profits are so slim that more repair shops fail than any other kind of private commercial (laundries, undertakers, etc.) service...
...Past. While the judge forgave the immediate past, the Braves worried about the immediate future. A World Series against the World Champion Yankees was certain to be an uphill fight for the Braves. There was always a chance that Aaron's bat (TIME, July 29) might fail to work its familiar miracles. Second Baseman Red Schoendienst, the old pro who had carried them through the stretch (TIME, Sept. 2), could be counted on for a steady series, and most of Manager Fred Haney's other regulars were providentially free of injuries. But the bulk of the Braves...
There are several inaccuracies in your discussion of the Junior Qualifying Exam given last spring. To begin with, "the bottom quarter" of the Junior Class did not fail this examination. Sixty-seven took the exam. Of these, fourteen received a grade of "distinction," 26 a grade of "pass," 15 a grade of "marginal pass" and 12 a grade of "fail." The term "fail," of course, means in this context "below B" since the purpose of the examination is to determine a man's qualifications for honors work in the senior year. As one of the four examiners, newly appointed...