Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dean Jose Luis Sert, whose architectural firm realized Le Corbusier's plans, will comment on the building. Dean Ford will preside, and President Pusey will perform the dedication. Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter, whose gift made the Center possible, will speak briefly...
...proper flight, there were other functions for the autopilot to perform before reaching this re-entry positioning. And since each stage was automatically linked in sequence with the others, he now knew that the earlier functions had been skipped, would not be performed by the autopilot. These included the precise positioning of his capsule for the firing of his retrorockets, the triggering of those rockets and the jettisoning of his retro-package. These functions would have to be controlled by hand...
After years of sticking strictly to farm machinery, Deere moved into chemicals in 1954, two years later entered the industrial-equipment field with boom-or plow-equipped industrial tractors that perform every task from stacking logs to burying telephone cable. The company began moving overseas in 1956, now does a $64 million business from eight plants abroad. Next month it intends to enter the consumer market for the first time with a 7-h.p. lawn and garden tractor...
...science; second, the grounds of scientific generalizations and theories, extending first-hand experience with theoretical calculations from introductory laboratories; third, the social context of science, starting from knowledge of at least one scientist in one real laboratory in one real department. It is these courses that would perform the "orienting" function of scientific education with Holton emphasizes. In order to make the introductory courses now called Nat Scis available through the departments, and in order to leave the field of Gen Ed open to topical courses which treat these three issues, the departmental courses currently disguised as Nat Sci should...
...Chemistry, offers pragmatic evidence of scientists' need to know more than what the departments circumscribe. A elementary biologist with Math. 1 at hand, for example, might want to look at elementary thermodynamics and statistical mechanics to see what they offer by way of models of ecosystems. Such courses could perform some of the three Gen Ed issues as well: A course for physicists might teach evolutionary and genetic theories and compare the strength of predictions and kinds of concepts used in biological theory with those in physics. A course for mathematicians in the psychology of how humans handle symbols might...