Word: gs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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sophomore year is the toughest," Monro stated, "and the departments like to keep it routine." "The year gs to courses, to sophomore tutorial, to the departments...
Voluminous records of the flight proved that Ham had performed magnificently. In spite of fearful acceleration forces (up to 18 Gs) and weightlessness that lasted seven minutes, he had worked his light-and-lever system without a single error, never getting a shock...
...service job in Washington in Depression-dreary 1933 to help pay for a Ph.D. in English literature that would launch him on a teaching career. He has yet to find time for that doctorate. A talent for staffwork hoisted him up through civil service ranks to its top-level GS-18 rating before he stepped out of ranks in 1958 to become assistant director of the Budget Bureau. Two years ago Dwight Eisenhower named him chairman of the Civil Service Commission. "God and the Government," Jones once noted, "have been very, very good...
...living at 4Gs, they have a good deal of trouble when taken off the centrifuge and forced to live like other chickens in the earth's normal 1-G field. "It looks as if they get a stoppage of the gut," he says. "After all, at 4-Gs their hearts were pumping fluid with the normal density of molten iron." At the present point in their experiments, neither Wunder nor Smith cares to predict the effect on the human body of space-age gravitational changes. But the logical extension of the test results so far would indicate that...