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Word: shipboard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although press coverage often centered largely on a shipboard struggle between a captain and the Havana Superintendent of Schools, the nation's newspapers lauded the Harvard effort and gave it wide publicity. The Cubans themselves increased publicity by visiting New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, where they were received by President McKinley. The hastily-arranged experiment thus proved tremendously successful, and any latent opposition to summer education was quashed. 1900 confirmed the vacation session as a valuable adjunct to the winter terms...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: The Topsy-Like Growth of the Summer School | 7/14/1960 | See Source »

...earth, diminish as they move on. By measuring the rate of change of these frequencies, a navigator can determine his exact distance from the satellite's path. And since Transit will also announce just where it will be on its path at any given moment, a computer on shipboard will be able to tell the navigator where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rapid Transit | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

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