Word: pers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speed of Giacobinid meteors is rather accurately known: 23 kilometers (14.3 miles) per second. Working theoretically, Whipple figured out what would happen to a very small particle hitting the thin top of the atmosphere at this speed. He decided that if the particle were small enough, about 4 microns (.000156 in.) in diameter, the heat generated by its friction with the air would be carried away (by radiation and other effects) without heating the particle. The "critical size" that he calculated theoretically was close to the actual size of Landsberg's particles. This is strong evidence, said Whipple, that...
When the club placed its counterproposal on its annual election ballot last week as a referendum, over 50 per cent of the student body voted 1224 to 78 against the administration...
...This is about 50 per cent better than ever before," Kenneth D. Borg '50, chairman of the committee said...
...actual donations, which take place at PBH November 7 and 8, will include a brief physical examination. Berg said that in the past about 45 per cent of those who signed up were either shown to be in bad health by this examination, didn't get releases from their parents, or didn't show up at all for their appointments...
Indeed, it was West who, along with Roche, carried the Harvard offense. He took the ball 32 times and gained a total of 107 yards, for an average of about 3.3 yards-per-try. It was West over the guards and off the tackles, and West through the middle; when Henry needed...