Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days before Pioneer IV's successful takeoff, the Air Force launched its first Discoverer satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Discoverer was the U.S.'s first attempt to put a satellite into polar orbit, which would make possible surveillance of the whole of the earth's surface. The booster...
...Force, the fault was not in the launching equipment but in the instrumentation of the payload. One theory is that the transmitter worked weakly or intermittently. Another is that the satellite's stabilizing system failed, allowing the satellite to tumble over and over. This might make its directional radio signals hard to receive on earth...
...observation of the growing neglect of youth'' wrote Samuel Phillips Jr. a few years before the U.S. Constitution was ratified, has "excited in us a painful anxiety." To allay the anxiety and cure the neglect, the 26-year-old Phillips persuaded his father and uncle to make a gift of lands and cash for the establishment of a school to teach boys "English and Latin Grammar, Writing. Arithmetic, and those Sciences, wherein they are commonly taught, but more especially to learn them the great end and real business of living...
...also where a man realizes, in dismay, that he is too. Perhaps with the idea of softening the shock, Princeton's class of '49 mailed questionnaires to its 760 members. From 510 anonymous replies, tabulators last week could sketch the sort of old Princetonian who will make the nostalgic trip to Nassau Hall this June: he is plump, prosperous, has most of his hair, is worried about the state of the world, yet comfortably sure of his own place in the sun. Items...
...class of '49 has four millionaires, and it has 37 men who make less than $5,000 a year, but most members live in the lower reaches of the upper middle class; 210 make between $5,000-$10,000 a year, and 136 between $10,000-$15,000. The college men own-or are owned by-50 boats, five airplanes, 14 horses, 265 dogs and "a few turtles, ocelots and raccoons." Six men are union members, and three graduates are in Who's Who in America...