Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What the U.S. got in its Mercury Astronauts, said Dr. W. Randolph Lovelace II, the selection director, was "highly intelligent, highly motivated men." Their IQs range from 135 to 147-the genius level...
...retrorockets to fire, thereby reducing the speed and causing the vehicle to plunge. It will crash into the earth's atmosphere like a stone into water, creating a sudden shock to both vehicle and man. The forward parts of the vehicle will be heated to an extremely high level. The heat will not reach the man, protected by a heat shield...
...organic union of the Christian Church is impossible given the Roman Catholic fact," the Rev. Gustave Weigel, S.J., professor of Theology at Woodstock College, said last night. "This should not discourage us," he emphasized, "from living in a union on the secular level...
...severance of the leader from the student the sole reason for such actions; the student-leader has the example of countless numbers of his elders. One reads so frequently of political pecadillos on the national level that one may easily come to suppose that the only way to get into politics is through minor illegal machination...
...majority of undergraduates when such evils are brought to light. They have been reading the same newspapers for as long as the undergraduate politicians, and while most would not choose to emulate national political sins, they have become so used to them, that seeing them on a college level more amuses than disturbs them. They are just another aspect of unimportant, recreational activities; they are above the concern of the scholar. One is more inclined to laugh at the way these men try to imitate their elders than to shudder over the realization that this sort of loose morality...