Word: newtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the intern system, students act as practice teachers at a special summer school in Newton, Mass., before taking on a full-time teaching position for one regular school term. During this term of teaching, the interns also continue their studies with three classes at the Education School each week...
...reputation of the main speaker was known throughout the territory. It was no surprise to the University of Alaska's commencement audience last year that he should choose as his theme: "Be Bold." Ernest Newton Patty had been one of the original 1922 faculty at the struggling new campus. He had been dean of the college, had built up the mining school into one of the best in North America. After 19 prosperous years as a Seattle mining engineer, he was back at his old school to urge more "bold planning in the years ahead to develop this university...
Proceeding cautiously, Stapp sent his sled on 32 rocket runs carrying a dummy passenger. At least one of these experiments gave him pause. When the sled's brakes grabbed, "Oscar Eight-Ball," the anthropomorphic 185-lb. dummy, lurched forward in obedience to Newton's second law of motion. He broke his harness, slammed through an inch-thick pine windshield as if it were tissue paper, and soared 710 ft. down the track...
Consistent Radicals. Herbert GeTork, president of Massachusetts' Andover Newton Theological School, spelled out Baptist beliefs (authority of the Bible, fellowship of believers, necessity of evangelism), hailed Baptists as "the most consistent and radical Protestants." When it came to resolutions, the congress...
...Apple Valley, Calif., Long Beach Oilmen Newton Bass and Bernard Westlund developed 26,000 acres of desert land they bought in 1946 for an average of $50 an acre into a plush resort, now use 90 salesmen and a fleet of radio-controlled cars to sell half-acre lots for as much...