Word: loadings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart attack, he said, was not caused by the stresses and pressures of the presidency; the President, like most of Dr. White's 12,000 other heart patients, was not likely to suffer a second attack. The President would be able to assume a much heavier work load starting around Jan. 9, after a two-week trip to the South for an easy return to normal exercise. The big political question of whether Dwight Eisenhower would be fit enough to seek a second term, Dr. White implied, could be answered in mid-February, after his next and probably final...
...most spectacular achievements have been accomplished there. From a tall steel tower Aerobee rockets scream into the sky, carrying instruments to explore the boundaries of space. Sixty Aerobees have been fired, carrying 150-lb. payloads to 70 miles. The new Aerobee-Hi (two have been fired) carries the same load to 150 miles. The Aerobees are research rockets, not weapons, but Holloman also tests moderate-range guided missiles...
...deep-voiced Tennessee Ernie Ford, and leaped to the top of the nation's bestseller lists as fast as any record ever made. It has a driving beat, like the cars clanking to and from the underground yard, and its words carry a kind of homey cynicism: You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt...
Tufts jumped to a 12-2 load after five minutes, and played the Crimson even for most of the half, opening up a 36-28 edge at the 18-minute mark. But Bob Hastings and Dick Hurley each sank a pair of field goals, and the margin was out to 36 to 31 at half-time...
Vastly more important that mere technical boundaries was the addition of more scholars to the University staff. Frye, brilliant young linguist and historian, had carried much of the load himself until Sir Hamilton A. R. Gibb was appointed University Professor and Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic in 1954. Langer calls him "one of the very greatest living Arabists," and with his special interest the impact of the West upon Arab Society, the British scholar is certain to be a continuing inspiration for the Center...