Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pilot needs at least three seconds to see and react to an approaching plane; with both planes flying at 300 miles per hour (considerably slower than the speed of the jet airliners which will enter service this winter), three seconds means half a mile. In other words, by the time a pilot can adjust his course to avoid another plane, the other plane is upon him. In addition, the controls of a modern airplane are so complicated as to require a pilot's almost undivided attention. He does not have time to watch for other planes, and when he does...
...University next year, and will return in January, 1959, to take up his appointment as Lowell Television Lecturer on WGBH-TV. The conductor, who has presided enthusiastically over Music 1,--which will still be given next year--will again teach that course in 1959-60, as well as three half-courses for music non-concentrators. "I look forward to participating in the expansion of the music program," he said yesterday...
...will reveal its backstage machinations tonight at six p.m. in a color broadcast on WHDH-TV's Dateline Boston show. Members of the HDC will give a half-hour summary of the production of the recent Theatre Workshop, by Somerset Maugham...
Apparently still in a state of shock after the Dartmouth debacle Saturday, the varsity lacrosse defense handed Tufts four shots on an empty cage during the second half, but managed to pull out an 8-6 victory on the Business School field yesterday...
Nick Lamont scored a half-minute later, but Tufts tallied two goals to make the score 6 to 3, with a period remaining. Tufts struck again a 0:30 of the fourth quarter, but two more goals by Mallonee insured the victory...