Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the vast National Pacific Missile Range, be scored for hits and misses by naval units reporting to nearby Point Mugu Naval-Air Missile Test Center. Already experienced at its work, the twelve-year-old Navy center has been scoring its own Sparrow and Bullpup guided missiles over a short ocean range, safely sent ship-based Regulus missiles over the mountains 500 miles inland to impact at Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah. Now enlarging to handle bigger missiles-perhaps to test submarine-based Polaris as well as work on National Aeronautics and Space Administration experiments-the Navy has recently started...
After the halftime mark, the Ephs tied the score in a brief four minutes. At this point, the Crimson's accuracy had fallen off, but more damaging was its lack of rebounding. A short skirmish between Donohue and the Ephs' Sam Weaver and the complaints of Williams' coach seemed to have an accelerating effect on the varsity's offense. Bowditch began to crack with corner and lay-up shots and a few spectacular hooks...
...train youngsters, but to intellectualize those already destined for the elite. No one would deny the importance of such efforts should they succeed, but if the superficial veneer of culture which most people acquire in college is the sole return on their investment, then millions of Americans are being short changed. Before accepting this improbable hypothesis we must scrutinize the possibility that the four year apprenticeship to the scholars (often called "liberal education") changes not only the veneer but the man within...
...four short years the college weans him from his adolescent languor by giving substance to such middle class ideals as order, planning, ambition, and achievement. During his four year stay at college this youngster turns from his teen-age dreams to the impersonal requirements of his future career--work and individual responsibility. His college degree symbolizes his surrender to the success ethic, and his ability to gradate foreshadows ability in the conference room and at the bargaining counter...
...Crimson struck first at 11:42 of the first period, as Fischer tipped in a 15-foot thrust by Bud Higginbottom. The goal came with B.U. a man short on a holding penalty, but on two other occasions the varsity could not even manage a shot at the Terrier goal on power plays...