Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...machine was operating by the middle of 1949, accelerating protons to a maximum energy of 90 million electron volts. At that time, it was one of the largest operating cyclotrons in he world. Research was carried on until 1955, when the cyclotron was shut down for overhaul and modification. It was operating again in the fall of 1956, with a new maximum energy of 160 million electron volts...
...Buick on Sept. 15. Last week the completely restyled Buick was already on the streets, being delivered to dealers (see cut). Ford said the new Mercury will be "totally new from road to roof," with 61% more glass space than the poor-selling '585. To make the overhaul complete, Ford's Mercury-Edsel-Lincoln Boss James J. Nance, onetime head of Hotpoint and Studebaker-Packard, resigned under pressure after eight months as division chief. Under Nance, production skidded to 110,644 cars this year from 264,439 at the same time last year. Nance was replaced...
...laboratory, Seaborg follows Cal teams on out-of-town trips, turns up at locker-room wakes-and also fights football professionalism. In 1957 he became a leading teacher-by-television in the science series programmed by San Francisco's hot-shot educational TV station, KQED. He recently helped overhaul math and science teaching in California public schools...
...solid foundations, but on shifting dirt. Its timbers are rotting, the Cabinet room is hazardous, some floors are so weak that the number of guests invited to receptions have had to be cut. What No. 10 needs, said the White Paper, is nothing less than a complete "structural overhaul" at a cost of at least ?400,000 ($1,120,000). Once again sensible men could say that the most economical course would be to tear the whole place down. But as usual, even sensible men will agree in the end that London would not really be London without the original...
...Overhaul of the Army's training program, increasing the training period from nine months plus a year's probation to two years' training and a year's probation. ¶ Revision of criteria for the 600-man teaching staff; in addition to good character, familiarity with the Army and the Bible, teachers will henceforth be required to know how to teach. ¶ New emphasis on spiritual counseling and instruction in Christianity. ¶ Modernization of the Salvationists' "religious language" and increased use of the printed word, radio and television...