Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...black, needle-nosed X-15 dropped free at 38,000 ft. In its instrument-crammed cockpit at that instant, Test Pilot Scott Crossfield started his rocket engines and flashed ahead on the first powered flight of the experimental plane that is designed to take man to the edge of space...
...flew, checking the X-15's behavior constantly with the control tower, the B-52 and his chase pilots (one of whom, Air Force Major Robert White, will probably be selected to make the first X-15 test flight in space). When he leveled off at 50,000 ft., Pilot Crossfield called...
...welter of different, and sometimes conflicting, ideas that surround the Freshman Program Byron R. Stookey '54, Associate Director of this office, describes its work as that of "stimulating interest in this kind of undertaking, of finding people willing to do it, of talking over credit arrangements, of creating space for the workshops, of locating all problems of detail and trying to get them squared away, of doing some preliminary work in approaching students, of being a communications center...
...text of the questionnaire, which was sent out to 400 undergraduates, is reproduced below. About 319 returns were obtained, a response of 78 per cent. Certain questions and responses have been deleted for considerations of space; however, these are covered in the specific articles, especially the features on politics and on Catholics, Protestants, and Jews at Harvard...
...cried. "I shall tell you. We have killed him--you and I. All of us are his murderers. But how have we done this? Are we not straying as through an infinite nothing? Has it not become colder? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Is not night and more night coming on all the while?...God is dead. What was holiest and most powerful of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives. Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must not we ourselves become gods simply...