Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speed and causing the vehicle to plunge. It will crash into the earth's atmosphere like a stone into water, creating a sudden shock to both vehicle and man. The forward parts of the vehicle will be heated to an extremely high level. The heat will not reach the man, protected by a heat shield...
...thumping 74% said no (but 54% were convinced that Russia would not fight over Berlin, either). Presumably no German, Frenchman or American is any more eager than the Briton to be annihilated, but others were not making so much of the dangers, as justification for a need to reach agreements with Khrushchev...
...earnings for 1959 will reach a new high, barring a steel strike or a similar calamity." So said National Steel's Chairman George M. Humphrey, former Secretary of the Treasury, as he announced last week that National's first-quarter earnings were "three or four times larger than the first quarter of last year," when they were 51? a share. Many a U.S. businessman echoed George Humphrey. The first wave of anxiously awaited first-quarter earnings proved higher than almost anyone had expected. The week's most general prediction for the nation's business: "The best...
...coaches feel that a freshman crew must row 300 miles before it begins to reach its potential, and that they must row this distance before their first race. At the present time the Freshman have only logged 225 miles, and rowing an average of forty a week the lightweights should have a fortnight of practice before their first competition. Unfortunately it comes today...
...Administration is also under pressure not to let the transgressions of its students reach the public. Some Boston papers are eager to receive any report that will lower the public estimate of Harvard, and Harvard authorities are just as eager to frustrate them in their desire. Thus the beating of town youths may go almost unpunished if the athletes involved are valuable to the university; for it is better to let them off with a stern warning than to put them on probation or expel them and risk the nastiness of sensationalist press coverage...