Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economic opportunity for the blacks. The multiracial, Catholic-run Lovanium University will graduate its first Negro lawyers and engineers next year. At Luluabourg, deep in the heart of the Congo, black cadets are training at the colony's first military academy. Nowhere in Africa is there such a solid, well-paid class of native technicians. Congolese pilot river and lake steamers, run locomotives, do 90% of the repair work at the big military base at Kamina. But Africans are still segregated in native quarters, must be in their own part of town by curfew-9-10 o'clock...
...Operation Deep Freeze Three, Linehan set off three blasts of TNT in a 48-ft. crater not far from Paul Siple's camp. (The crater had been made by an air-dropped tractor that dropped too far too fast.) The sound wave took .4 seconds to reach solid rock beneath the ice and return. Linehan calculated that the bedrock is 903 ft. above sea level. Over this is "very dense" ice 8,200 ft. thick, topped by a 20-ft. belt of "hard" ice. In turn, the hard-ice belt is covered by a surface layer of snow...
Long before his blunt-nose idea, Allen had become famous among flight scientists. A Stanford graduate (class of '32), he joined NACA in 1936, became known as a hustling young man with solid, but unconventional, ideas. Too busy to remember names, he took to calling everyone "Harvey," soon had the nickname tagged back on him. No great shakes as an office manager, he watched his desk disappear under piles of paper, often had to whistle in the janitors to dredge his work out of the wastepaper. But somehow Allen got his job done, e.g., the laminar-flow air foil...
...years. "It is not unusual," says an expert, "to open a can of film and find nothing but dust." Almost as frustrating is the sheer volume; the vaults of the U.S. armed forces alone hold 166 million feet visible to the public-enough to provide 3^ years of solid viewing, day and night...
While Clarkson's starting lineup is as strong as the one that Harvard faced last spring, the depth may play a very large role. The Black Knights have a very good first line, a solid starting defense, and an outstanding goalie, but beyond this, the quality of its team tapers off noticeably. This was brought to light by its 5-4 defeat earlier this year at the hands of a relatively fast but inexperienced Middlebury sextet. While Middle- bury is definitely improved over last year, it has never had a really topnotch hockey team and its win over Clarkson demonstrated...