Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Higher and higher into the purpling sky streaked the Starfighter-50,000 ft., then 60,000, then 70,000. Laconically, Johnson radioed Edwards tower, made certain that the radar trackers still carried him on their screens. Now, 80,000 ft.: Johnson's pressurized cockpit altitude was 45,000 ft., and his pressure suit automatically inflated with oxygen from a bottle beneath his seat. His afterburner had long since lost nearly all its thrust, but Johnson kept coasting up. At length he knew that he could no longer hold the nose up in the thinning atmosphere, slacked...
Vindication. Wrote the New York Times's Drew Middleton: "Dulles' prestige among governments allied with the U.S. is probably higher now than at any time since he first became Secretary of State. This stubborn, proud man has, in a comparatively short span of six months, seen both his stubbornness and his pride vindicated." At the Paris conference, recalled London's conservative Daily Telegraph, "Mr. Dulles stood out from his other ministerial colleagues like a gnarled tree stump, incongruously recalling the hard winds of winter among a bed of spring flowers all heralding the soft days of sunshine...
...Dominican air force, Ramfis came to the U.S. last summer to attend a year's course at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in Leavenworth, Kans. Because of frequent leaves, arranged through his embassy in Washington, he has apparently remained innocent of the higher principles of military strategy, but his cafeé-society tactics have improved by the week...
Wall Street, which has long since discounted much of the bad news, put on a buying spurt. Led by steels, rails, oils and aircraft, stocks on the Dow-Jones industrial average climbed two points higher during the week to hit a new high for the year at 462.56, nearly 43 points better than the recession low of last October. Poor earnings were easily shrugged off. At the annual meeting of Radio Corp. of America, President John L. Burns gave 1,275 stockholders of the world's biggest electronics company the bad news about a 29.7% first-quarter decline...
Graduate school is professional school. The purely graduate seminars put a premium upon original, creative scholarship and technical ability. In these higher level seminars there is no place for the most intrepid undergraduate. The English and History Departments have already tightened the Ph.D. requirements, in an effort to give the GSAS student a more concentrated and individualized professional training. The Government Department, too, is in the process of revising its program. But whereas graduate training is made more rigorous on its higher levels, the conference courses remain static. Although both graduates and undergrads are nominally subject to the same requirements...