Word: reached
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aristotle claimed that the ideal marrying age was 37 for the man, 18 for the woman. As he saw it, both would thus reach the end of their sexual decline at roughly the same time, when he was 70 and she was 50. But what do philosophers know anyway? In fact, a woman's sexual desire may continue for years after menopause. In men, the desire may thrive until an extraordinary age. In 1583, an Englishman named Thomas Parr was found guilty of committing adultery at the age of 100 and did penance, according to the custom...
...today's jetliners, if a pilot allows his speed to reach 85% of the speed of sound, a bell rings and a light flash es to caution him to go no faster. There is good reason for the warning. Beyond that limit, the big ships generate turbulence that causes a drastic loss in efficiency and sometimes dangerous buf feting. Thus, although the sonic barrier is around 660 m.p.h. at the normal jet cruising altitude of 35,000 ft., commercial jets are held down to a speed of about 560 m.p.h...
...half-serious flights of fancy, humorists have lately envisioned an economic future in which International Everything, Inc. and about a dozen similar finance-manufacturing-retailing combines take over half of the nation's business. Corporate consolidation has a long way to go to reach such extremes, but it is certainly moving in that direction at an accelerating speed. Never before have U.S. companies been caught in such a powerful and persistent tide of mergers, raids and takeover attempts. The volume of mergers doubled last year, when firms paid a record $43 billion-mostly in securities-to acquire...
...first paid issue of BAD came out Oct. 16 of last year, a logical step in the face of advertisers' desires to reach as many college students as possible. Advertisers, eager to strengthen his market, had been paying BAD's press bill all along; now Lewis increased his college circulation 50 per cent by giving the entire press run to students and charging for copies in public places, with the additional income helping to finance the free distribution. Boston After Dark sells about 5000-6000 copies each week, Sullivan said, not counting 2500 subscriptions (perhaps half of which are complimentary...
Goodell and Mayer discovered that Nigeria is suffering from many of the same problems as Biafra, but that the Biafran's situation is incomparably more serious because relief supplies and volunteers cannot reach Biafran victims...