Word: fored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waddling 5-ft. 3-in. beam, survived an Atlantic hurricane. When he got to England, after the first leg of his journey, Skipper Carlin spent three years writing about his early adventures (Half Safe, William Morrow & Co., Inc. $5) and refitting his ship. He lengthened her sloping superstructure fore and aft, thickened her neoprene waterproofing, beefed up her fuel capacity. Interior steel fittings were replaced with aluminum and plastic until the craft was 600 Ibs. lighter. All told, the Half Safe weighed 3½ tons with a full cargo; every spare inch was filled with equipment−radio, stove, water...
There were about three issues during 1931's final years that affected the whole nation and about which the undergraduate had definite ideas of his own. One was pacifism, which came to the fore annually when the West Point cadets came to Cambridge for the Harvard-Army football game. The cadets, marching solemnly over Anderson Bridge to the Stadium, presented a marked contrast to the motley Harvard rooters. But the CRIMSON was not alarmed: "the playing field this afternoon should give ample proof that the men of West Point offer no inherent threat of jingo militarism against the world...
...output of goods and services, most experts think they are needed to supply an expanding economy. In 1939 about $20 billion worth of inventories was adequate; in 1956 the U.S. needs four times as much to make sure that booming consumer demand is satisfied. With fore casts of a gross national product of $403 billion for 1956 (up $16 billion from 1955), inventories will creep still higher to keep pace with future sales. Moreover, because of increased distribution efficiency, the all-important ratio of inventories to sales has been dropping, reducing the danger of overloading. While the 1939 manufacturers...
...seniority tradition brought Eastland to the fore, and although that tacit rule is airtight in the great majority of cases, it has nevertheless been broken three times in the past. "It is my judgement that the present vacancy in the chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee justifies making another exception to the seniority custom of the Senate," said Wayne Morse two weeks ago. The Senate did not agree with him. A different body, in a different age, might have acted in another...
...been so widely anticipated that the official announcement sold fewer extra papers than an unexpected no might have done. The day's most offbeat headline (over a huge picture of a grinning Ike): the New York Daily News's FORE! ! The most original comment ran on the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser's editorial page. It was an uncaptioned photograph taken months ago at a prankish Arizona reception and blown up big. The picture showed Adlai Stevenson with a hangman's noose around his neck...