Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...depended on, who you were. For those taking examinations in the 90-degree heat, it as a hot, sweaty, miserable, stinking excuse for a day. For those studying for the next debacle, the day afforded an opportunity to say eloquently. "The hell with it," and find something more appealing...
...Normally, the automatic control system is supposed to tilt the capsule into the proper position for firing the retro-rockets-the blunt heat shield end of the capsule pointing 34° above the horizon. But Carpenter felt that the automatic system was working badly; he decided to fly the capsule into the correct position by a combination of the manual and fly-by-wire controls...
Advanced teaching and research in the earth sciences at Harvard are now carried on in three separate buildings: the ROTC building, which houses laboratories for research in geochemistry and economic geology: the Dunbar laboratory, where geophysicists study rocks and materials under great heat and pressure; and the geological museum, which contains a laboratory for chemical analysis of sedimentary rocks, equipment for the study of stream flow and transportation of sediments, and the Berman Memorial Laboratory which has x-ray equipment for studying the composition and structure of minedals...
...together as war prisoners doing forced labor in a small German village. One is a successful journalist who wants to fight in order to prove himself. "What am I looking for?" he asks. "Baptism by fire. I want to see what it's like when they really turn the heat...
...varsity Saturday. En route to their second Ivy defeat of the season, the Crimson stickmen lost face-off after face-off, neglected to pick up loose ground balls, failed to clear consistently, and suffered heavily in the 99-degree weather. The Bulldogs didn't seem to mind the heat...