Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Centering largely on a description of Moscow University, Merle Fainsod, professor of Government, stressed the "driving dedication to science and technology" which makes a Russian scientific education "equal to the best this country has to offer." He gave much lower marks, however, to Soviet instruction in humanities and the social sciences...
...axiomatic, and serves as a clear example of the way in which Putney uses the community as an instrument of persuasion and education. Jazz was for a long while virtually non-existent, not because of any ban, but because the prevailing school opinion looked down upon it as a lower art form, if an art at all. But despite any opposition, there is hardly a single alumnus for whom classical music is not an important part of life. Music has been important principally because of the school's dynamic musical director, Mr. Norwood Hinkle, who is a disciple...
...employees will be allowed to buy G.M. products at 25% off or at cost, whichever is lower. (One local demanded...
...have wafted into weightlessness by flying high and level, faster than sound, and pushing the plane's nose up into the Keplerian trajectory, in which centrifugal force exactly cancels the earth's gravitational pull. Despite his plane's vast speed reserve, he chose to work at lower altitudes, enter the parabola from a power dive (see diagram). Over "hot mikes" (both microphones always switched on, so that each of us could hear the other's breathing), he asked simply: "Ready...
...about 5,000 ft. above the sea, a small explosive charge fired a tight-packed parachute out of a mortar-like container. It was a ribbon chute made of concentric rings of strong fabric 2 in. wide, and at first it was reefed by a band around it to lower the shock of opening. When the falling speed was reduced still more, explosive bolts freed the recovery package, the parachute was unreefed and its powerful drag pulled the package a short distance away from the hot shell of the nose cone, preserving it from heat damage. Then a small, tough...