Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With present technology, a nuclear turbojet engine would offer only the advantage of endurance, and this already is largely overcome by long-range and in flight refueling techniques for faster-flying jets; moreover, both jets and the nuclear plane will soon be made obsolete by missiles...
Whether or not you feel that Homo sapiens is an advance over hippospongia, multiplying application rates suggest that this traditional academic program still has something to offer to somebody. If we are to decide whether that mysterious something is approriate to women's education we must now undertake to define...
Another rationale for the move was given by David E. Owen, Master of Winthrop House. Owen explained that "the Masters of the older Houses hope they will be able to match the glory of Quincy and the Leverett towers in some humble way." Quincy and the Leverett addition offer private bedrooms; Quincy offers built-in refrigerators for each suite, and a "grill" in the basement...
...Leeka, 20, U.C.L.A.; 6 ft. 1 in., 210 lbs. Senior. Major: business education. Considered a "real sleeper" by pro scouts, lost chance for many All-Americas because of eligibility restrictions that allowed him to play in only five games. Likes to grin at opponents at game's start, offer to shake hands, saying: "Let's be civilized while we can, shall we?" May forgo pro football for career in movies...
...pilots, they will be at the bottom of seniority lists, will be laid off if the line starts reducing its crews because of the greater carrying capacity of the jets. Says Princeton-educated engineer President George Petty Jr., 28, whose relatively small (3,500 members) union has an offer of a $1,000,000 strike loan from the powerful Teamsters union: "The pilots are fighting for something that doesn't belong to them. We're fighting for our lives, and we're going to hold...