Word: forwarder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...above the earth at its highest point, and taking slightly longer (1 hr. 43.7 min.) to complete a circuit. The instrumented section is not designed to separate from the casing of the final-stage rocket, as Sputnik I did. This suggests that the rocket can be deliberately turned tail forward. If it burns fuel in this position, its speed will be reduced, bringing it back to earth...
...This call to learn from the East," says Hocking, "will be taking us nearer to the spirit of an earlier Christianity! There is no stronger endorsement of the lasting significance of the message emanating from Galilee than the fact that in moving forward past modernity we arrive at a better comprehension of its changeless demands...
...four years Bing had been looking forward to the day when he could replace his creaking old Giovanni sets and spring the opera's boiling action loose from the Met's antiquated stage. Painter Eugene Berman, in many ways the star of the evening, brilliantly solved the problem with a second curtain halfway back on the stage which could be drawn and closed to let the scenes change at nervous speed. His solid 17th century Seville glowed with rust-brown and gold under hot blue skies, unfolded to reveal a succession of magnificent purple-and-crimson interiors...
...colleges did not treat the matter with any great seriousness. The student at Cambridge felt that the Tiger football players were a little rougher than ordinary and that their undergraduate body did overdress; while the man of Princeton, although somewhat rankled at being called an underwear salesman, still looked forward to the next football game with the Crimson as one of the highpoints of the fall. This was apparently the limit of the "evident animosity...
...flunks them out if they do not perform. An Exeter B- average is usually equivalent to a Harvard B, although most people spend more time working at Exeter, since there are few diversions. The faculty is among the best paid in the country. An Exeter teacher now looks forward to a top salary of $10,000. Like Harvard professors, many of these men are more interested in their subject and their families than in their students...