Word: longer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force announced last week that it is canceling its air-to-ground missile Rascal, now surpassed by the longer-range Hound Dog. Due soon, on orders from the President, is an appallingly long-delayed decision between the rival liquid-fuel intermediate-range ballistic missiles, the Air Force's Thor and the Army's Jupiter. Last week's splendid 6,300-mile performance by Atlas may also firm a tentative decision to slow down on or drop the Air Force's alternative intercontinental ballistic missile Titan. Also to be cut back or discarded: the Navy...
...fight the war, the U.S. needed everything that Mexico produced-cotton, metals, ores. The railroads were antiquated and creaky, but at least they were submarine-proof. U.S. dollars tumbled in, exports rumbled out. Many rich ex-landowners built factories to produce the goods Mexico could no longer import...
...deplored: "The effect upon children of learning that [Allen] was in fact a spy prying upon their privacy and using the special privilege of the position of teacher as a vehicle for sensationalism; the effect upon teachers when they learned that the exchange of confidence between educators . . . can no longer be safely indulged in; the effect upon a community of the realization that the teachers with whom their children sit may be consciously concerned not with the solving of educational problems but rather with the stimulating of them for the purpose of cheap exploitation." The board's solemn summing...
...sale by the Buckbee Mears Co., St. Paul, as an improvement over sandpaper. Named Steelie, the new sander uses etched and hardened carbon-steel sheets in rough and smooth finishes for the abrasive. Since the sanding surface is an integral part of the steel, it wears longer than sandpaper or other sanders with affixed abrasives, can be cleaned with a stiff brush or solvent. Price...
Through last year, history honors candidates got tested at the end of junior year on two years' tutorial work. Although the new system involves an additional examination, the student will be tested while the sophomore tutorial material is fresher in his mind. Furthermore, sophomore tutorial is no longer connected at all in contents with junior tutorial, as used to be the case when junior tutorial covered the philosophy of history and sophomore tutorial treated the great historians. Now, after studying a year in one's general field for junior tutorial, one tends to forget about Ranke and Bede from...