Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enemy countermeasures. The Army is meanwhile well along on the experimental Nike Hercules, a more sophisticated, solid-fuel missile with an atomic warhead. And the Army is also developing a specialty item, Raytheon's solid-fuel Hawk, designed to meet attack by enemy bombers scooping in at low level beneath U.S. radar...
Specifically, his major legislative recommendations--which had been outlined previously by both himself and Secretary Benson--asked for authority to set supports for cotton, corn, wheat, rice, peanuts and tobacco as low as 60 per cent of parity and to increase planting allotments of these crops as much as 50 per cent above levels now directed...
...Peyton Place are performed with a variety of accents and speech defects. Diane Varsi seems uncertain as the illegitimate girl, a sensitive-type child who reads books and listens to classical music. Hope Lange is adequate as her friend the murderess, and Terry Moore is well-cast in a low-cut dress. Lana Turner reverses her field to play a woman afraid of love, and does so in a professional manner...
...commodity, and the Social Sciences area is the worst place to do the shopping. The recent report to the Faculty on this uneven situation merits consideration and action from those departments which were cited for their relatively high number of summas, as well as from those with a relatively low total. The report revealed that the fields of English, Government, Biochemistry, and especially Economics and History awarded far fewer summas to students who, on the basis of grades, would be qualified, than most fields in the Humanities and Natural Sciences...
While seniors in most of the Natural Sciences are judged only by their course grades, students in the five low fields face the additional obstacles of theses and general examinations. The Whitla report noted, in addition, that "even if grades were used as the only criterion, Social Science graduates would not receive in relation to their ability the same percentage of highest honor degrees...