Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Higher Faculty. In University Park, Pa., Penn State's Liberal Arts Newsletter reported a talk given by Dean Euwema, said the dean had asserted that "problems brought to him are more easily solved if they are accompanied by a solution...
TIME, Oct. 27 fell short in measuring Wade Nichols' accomplishments as editor of Redbook Magazine. Every issue of Redbook to date in 1958 has delivered higher circulation than the 2,591,676 that you report as our current figure. Redbook's average total paid circulation in the first six months of this year...
Nothing but Eloquence. If a mishap occurs at altitudes higher than 20 miles, no ordinary escape capsule is likely to survive the heat and shock of return to the lower atmosphere. Besides a parachute, it should have wings of a sort, plus rocket propulsion so that the crew can choose a reasonably favorable part of the earth to land on. Except for trying to hit Kansas instead of Antarctica, the crew should be able to leave everything else to automatic devicing. "About all that is expected of them." said Stanley, "is that they return to earth alive and express with...
Emphatic Yes. Going higher by 2,000-ft. steps, the subjects had progressively shorter times of useful consciousness. But even at 40,000 ft. the Indians averaged 1½ minutes, and one held out for more than two minutes. These results answered the first question with an emphatic yes: an astronaut having temporary trouble would be able to function effectively far longer, and thus perhaps save his life, if he had the High Andean's altitude endurance...
...harder a man's job and the worse his worries, according to popular myth, the higher his blood pressure. Not so, said the British Medical Journal last week. After careful investigation, the Journal concluded: "People in light work with less expenditure of energy, higher incomes and higher standards of living had higher pressures." And contrary to expectation, "an inverse correlation was found with family size-the larger the family, the lower the pressure...