Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right (see diagram). When the pilot wants to depress the nose of his craft in near-airless space, he will shoot superheated steam (produced by catalyzed hydrogen peroxide) through the upward-pointing jets. The reaction will push the nose downward. Similar jets in the wingtips will keep the wings level or make the ship bank or roll...
...factor in keeping prices level is the excess capacity built by U.S. industry during the boom. This now permits the economy to recover and expand without pressure on production resources, thus preventing demand from overrunning supply-and forcing up prices-in the fashion of classical inflation. It also means that industry tends to produce more efficiently, thus cutting costs and helping to keep prices steady...
...students, Pipes explained, will study on the graduate level, two in natural sciences and two in American or English literature...
...relies on Harvard support for its prestige and will mend its admittedly mendable ways because of Harvard's withdrawal is a preposterous one. The same technique failed when Soviet Russia walked out of the U.N., and there is no indication that it increases in efficacy on a lower level...
...Harvard should not go back into the NSA on the same level it has maintained in the last few years. The reason for the apparent lack of benefit derived from it is the obvious minimum of effort Harvard has contributed to it. A Council which sends only two members to the National Student Congress cannot hope to remedy NSA's defects. It cannot hope to be well-informed on the resolutions so hastily passed on the floor of the convention, but so thoroughly debated beforehand. It cannot hope to derive full or even partial benefit from either the discussion programs...