Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fifty years ago, educational standards in American schools and colleges were even lower than today. But if in 1900 our schools did their job inadequately, they at least knew what they were trying to do and how they should do it. They were going to teach subjects which over two thousand years had proven valuable. And the people who taught these subjects were supposed to have mastered their disciplines and, therefore, be competent to incalculate others with them...
...Lower the Faster. As Sputnik entered its second week, there was no evidence that it was losing altitude, but its carrier seemed to be feeling the strain. The carrier is probably a large, empty cylinder with a lot of air resistance for its weight, so the thin air at orbit level takes more energy from it. But as the carrier loses energy to the air, it does not lose speed. It spirals down to a lower orbit and speeds up. The nearer an orbiting body is to the earth, the faster it must move. The earth's natural moon...
...Joseph A. Hynek of the Smithsonian Observatory estimated that after the first week the carrier had descended about ten miles from the apogee of its original orbit and increased its speed by about 20 m.p.h. This put it far ahead of the satellite proper, and made it spiral lower. There it could be getting hot from air friction, but it would probably last for at least two more weeks. Until Sputnik itself shows signs of dropping or speeding up, its date of fiery death cannot be predicted. Dr. John P. Hagen, chief of the U.S. satellite program, thinks that Sputnik...
...Advanced Standing Program's chief virtue consists of permitting the well qualified student to tailor himself a more challenging program by modifying or eliminating course requirements. While the student who achieves advanced placement in three courses is given sophomore standing and need take only one of three lower level general education courses, the student with two advanced placement credits is considered only a well prepared freshman and cannot reduce his general education requirements...
...general education course. But while allowing the advanced placement freshman to skip a general education course the University can require another course in the same area. A freshman would then be advised that he can satisfy his general education requirement in his advanced placement field either by a lower or upper level general education course or by any departmental course in that area. The student with advanced placement in English can use, therefore, the course time he obtains when liberated from a lower level humanities requirement to study more literature than he could otherwise...