Word: size
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...without any catastrophic results. According to their theory, meteors often strike the moon with enough momentum to knock lunar fragments loose at escape velocities. Most such fragments captured by the earth's gravitational pull would be incinerated as they plunge through the atmosphere. But those in a certain size range, the scientists say, would drift down and arrive on earth relatively unscathed, safely delivering any organisms they might contain...
...basic problems of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for more than a year released its report. The committee, chaired by Robert L. Wolff, recommended that the GSAS cut its enrollment by 20 per cent over the next six years to combat the school's "unwieldy and impersonal" size. The report also suggested pay raises for teaching fellows, a plan of long-term financial aid to grad students, and creation of a student center as part of an effort to improve sagging student morale at the GSAS...
...Registrar's Office has assigned you, to Emerson 105 (or the Geological Lecture Hall), thus enabling you to admit every student who came on Monday and thensome. It is common form, at this second meeting, to express contempt for the building's impersonal architecture and the room's awesome size. No explanation is required for the decision to accept all your applicants, save to say you found choosing among them impossible...
...Medical School's Committee on Disadvantaged Students released an ambitious report for attracting and keeping black and "disadvantaged minority" students at the school. The report asked the school to create 15 new scholarships of $5,000 each and to increase the size of a Med School class from...
...institution of this size and with this purpose can be neutral about its environment. It should act vigorously to secure land, erect buildings, and shape events; it will impose, however laudable its intentions, its preferences on others who may not share them. If it should be passive and let events take their course, it will implicitly choose a certain kind of environment--one, perhaps, in which all Cambridge slowly becomes like Harvard and M.I.T. until we find that we are no longer an urban university, but one which has allowed there to grow up around itself a kind of inner...