Word: soared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reluctant to add $165 to each student's expenses, she increases the expenses of one fourth of the girls by $434, and throws in two unwanted meals to justify such an increase. Moreover, she overlooks the fact that the room-and-board of dormitory residents would not have to soar to $1335 if the off-campus residents were charged proportionately more for the greater benefits which they receive. Radcliffe loses $41 per year on dormitory students and $340 per year on off-campus students. This disparity could be cut down in other ways than charging a flat room-and-board...
...high school get its brain-busting math and science courses off the ground and make them soar through the students' minds? The Atlanta public schools have blue-skied a wingding answer: they are teaching the kids to fly airplanes. Last week the most advanced of 45 boys and seven girls in the courses offered by three Atlanta high schools began flying a new Piper Cherokee 140 lent to the schools by the manufacturer...
Growth v. Stability. The economic policies of 1966 will be determined most of all by one factor: the war in Viet Nam. Barring an unexpected truce, defense spending will soar so high ?by at least an additional $7 billion?that it will impose a severe demand upon the nation's productive capacity and give body to the specter of inflation. Keynes feared inflation, and warned that "there is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of a society than to debauch the currency." Once chided for undertipping a bootblack in Algiers, he replied: "I will...
...There were times when I felt like killing David," Julie Christie confesses. But she also admits that, as an actress disciplined in underplaying roles, she was taught to soar by Lean. "David would say to me, 'None of that timid sort of stuff.' So I let myself go. I went over the top. It was exciting...
When astronauts eventually soar be yond the moon to explore the distant planets, they will find Jupiter a dangerous place to visit. Even if they manage to withstand the tremendous pull of Jupiter's gravity and survive the frigid atmosphere of ammonia, methane, hydrogen and helium, they may well perish in the gigantic storms that sweep the planet every decade...