Word: slamming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usually the gates slam on an Ivy applicant who scores below 550 in the test (scored from 200 to 800), but last year Columbia experimentally took a chance on 72 hopefuls who had done just that. Coleman happily reports that 69 of them passed Columbia's most highly verbal freshman courses, English A and Contemporary Civilization A, and that 16 of them ranked in the top half of the freshman class. Mediocre verbal scores, Coleman concludes, "do not accurately measure the well-motivated student's ability to survive, and in some cases to prosper, in a rigorous academic...
...heated molecules move faster, and a few of them move so fast that when they collide they stick to each other, creating new compounds with built-in energy. Instead of this haphazard system, says Vice President Milton Farber of Arizona's Rocket Power Inc., it is better to slam the molecules at each other with precisely enough energy to make them stick...
Splintering Fragments. At California's Aerojet-General Corp., another esoteric operation called ''fissio-chemistry" uses the enormous energy of fissioning uranium to slam molecules together. So far, the most promising product of the process is hydrazine, a derivative of which is used as highenergy, self-igniting fuel in the Air Force's Titan II rockets...
...mile, the sled is moving at more than 1,000 m.p.h. and its rockets are cut off. Split seconds later, a pair of iss-mm. howitzers beside the track blast away at the decelerating sled. Their shells, moving at 1,088 m.p.h., quickly catch up with the target, slam into it, and are stopped with scarcely a scratch by a bale of synthetic rubber. Then the sled itself splashes to a stop in a trough of water...
...Jaguar, as unsecured as a grain of flying sand. "I have no real roots," she says. "Sometimes, when I walk through a suburb with all its tidy houses and lawns, I get a real feeling of nostalgia. I want to live there and hear the screen door slam. And when I'm in New York, it sometimes smells like when I was nine, and I love it. I look back with great nostalgia on every place I've ever lived. I'm a sentimental kind of a goof...