Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...altitude record was set by Captain Joe B. Jordan of Huntsville, Texas in a Lockheed F-104C. Altitude tries require lots of advance planning. The ship was considerably rejiggered. It got a slightly larger fin (which will be standard on new production models) to keep it from yawing in thin air, and the intake duct was modified. To prepare for the record-breaking flight, Lockheed and the Air Force worked out a new flight plan. They decided that the F-104C should climb only to 40,000 ft., where the air is still dense enough to give the jet maximum...
...life-size," Whistler once said-and fewer still combine the gall, gallantry and genius with which Whistler fashioned a larger-than-life legend. Poet and Critic Horace (Amy Lowell) Gregory skirts the legend, feeling that many of the stories are in their anecdotage. He sacrifices color for perspective, but even a toned-down Whistler is no still life...
...workable disarmament can be reached, Humphrey declared, unless Communist China participates in the disarmament conferences. Romulo further maintained that any plan for disarmament would best be carried out by having the small nations act as mediators between the larger ones...
...Student Council has unfortunately scheduled its plebiscite on NSA membership for that final week when the student body slowly dissolves, an error not unusual when the council runs elections. If the Council advanced the date of the NSA vote a week they could get a more interested and a larger electorate...
Undergraduates should have "first claim" on any deconverted rooms, John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House, commented. Both Finley and Owen emphasized that space might be made for "exceptional" graduate students, given the present problem of crowding, but no larger number could join the Houses...