Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diving record by 65 ft. and he had done potentially useful work at 600 ft. He could have attached a cable to a sunken submarine at that depth. Some day he expects to go deeper; the limit, he feels, is imposed by cold and the long time needed for proper decompression. Asked why a man will do such a thing, Wookey says, "I think diving is intensely interesting, especially in shallow water. I go deeper because...
Gullible freshmen might not be the proper guineapigs for this system since an Estes Kefauver sort of candidate for the Jubilee Committee could handshake himself into office by seeing a hundred of his less perceptive classmates. For freshman, a system based on a weighted ballot, giving the first preference ten points, the second nine, and so on might be an improvement. Of course, this system might present tabulation difficulties to the Council, but special member could always be appointed from the Mathematics Department...
Beer believes that Stevenson represents the Democratic view of the Presidency. "The Democratic President realizes that he must not only point out the major problems, but he must do his utmost to get the proper solution...
...over the actual flying. The pilot will look at his luminous pictures and decide what he wants to do. He will dial a flight plan into the computer, which will make all the necessary calculations in only a few thousandths of a second and put the airplane on its proper course. Or the pilot can press an overriding button, ask the computer for guidance and work the controls himself...
...Premature Tub Thumping." While the public still has to be sold on color TV, few retailers across the country are yet in a selling mood. As a San Francisco dealer said last week: "The less I sell, the better. There's a shortage of proper technicians to repair them, and I don't think the buyer is always happy with what he gets." Dealers complain that prices, including the standard $100 one-year service policy (v. $40 for black-and-white), are still too high, and retail markups are too low to justify aggressive advertising...