Word: soared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...safety rules are in effect. Cars must be equipped with rubber sealers in their gas tanks, and drivers must make at least two stops for fuel-to keep pit crews from filling tanks to the brim, thereby increasing the danger of collision or fire. But as speeds soar at Indy, so do the risks. The sturdy old Offen-hauser-powered roadsters that once dominated the 500 have been largely replaced by light, rear-engined racers with massive Ford engines that generate 495 h.p.-v. 430 h.p. for the Offy. By week's end, 22 rear-engined entries had qualified...
...accuracy. After 73 years as mainly a coed music and physical-education school housed in a seedy assortment of Victorian buildings in downtown Ithaca, the college now occupies 250 windswept acres atop South Hill, where the clean bold lines of its new $30 million, 23-building complex do, indeed, soar high above Cornell...
...fast growing familiar with man's race beyond the confines of his own world, Early Bird reached back toward the earth and seemed to shrink it almost to room size. All by itself, the satellite blanketed more than one-third of the globe. If two more soar into orbit, for the first time in history it will be literally true that for every nation instant contact will be possible with every inhabited spot on earth...
...production line three weeks ahead of the 1964 pace. Orders for machine tools hit a nine-month peak in March. U.S. industry is spending considerably more this year on plant expansion and new equipment than originally estimated; at the present rate, 1965 capital spending is expected to soar 15%, to more than $51 billion...
Only half a dozen patients have been treated so far in each center. White blood cell counts, which soar as high as 200,000 per cubic millimeter in leukemia, have dropped to around 8,000#151;within the normal range. Patients with some of the chronic forms of leukemia have maintained their improvement for as long as nine months after treatment. Benefit in acute leukemia has been much shorter, but all the patients have been adults, in whom the chronic forms of the disease are more common...