Word: reached
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your statement, "Another campus in Rolla . . . was created out of a school of mines and metallurgy" [Feb. 4], must surely be nominated as TIME'S understatement of the year. You missed a significant part of "Missouri's Upward Reach." The University of Missouri at Rolla is the largest undergraduate engineering and physical-science school west of the Mississippi, sixth largest in the nation. Founded in 1870 as the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, it has long had departments in civil, electrical, mechanical, chemical, and geological engineering, mathematics, chemistry and physics, as well as ceramics, mining and metallurgy...
Those with high cholesterol felt tired and overburdened by their work; they were ceaselessly struggling, without much pleasure, to reach a forever un attainable goal...
...important in man, is implanted in the heart wall so that its blood flow may reinforce the coronaries. One internal mammary is big enough to carry an adequate blood supply for the entire left ventricle (the heart's main pumping chamber), and if the blood still does not reach all the starved areas, the right mammary artery can be used to supply the right ventricle...
...when confronting revolutionary Asia, the humane American vision slips over into terror, and the Cold War mind -- "suspicious, dramatic, and above all, rational," reaches its most dangerous conclusions. To justify the defense of our wealth, and to satisfy our psyches, we see every social upheaval as a conspiracy: the National Liberation Front is controlled by Hanoi, and Hanoi by Peking. Oglesby suggests, more than half seriously, that we are fighting to show China that it must control Hanoi and the NLF, in order to create a rational Asian Communist coalition. We are practicing, Oglesby says, a politics of nostalgia...
...Coop cannot expect the Faculty or the Registrar or students to come up with answers to its problems spontaneously or observe its deadlines automatically. And it cannot rely on its better record this term: professors are always easier to reach during the winter and there are always full courses whose second term enrollment is known in advance...