Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...College has decided to admit approximately 1,100 freshmen each year, which limits its enrollment to about 4,300. Tuition has had to go up to meet rising costs. Large fortunes are not being made with the same astonishing speed. Expansion is no longer the answer. There must be found some means of distributing the present Faculty to satisfy changing needs...
...reach "escape velocity," the space ship's fuel must be used as economically as possible, and the efficiency of a rocket motor depends on the speed of the exhaust gases. Lewis calculated that a space ship carrying half its total weight in fuel would have to shoot out its exhaust gases at 9.95 miles a second...
Since the speed of the exhaust gases is proportionate to the temperature in the combustion chamber, Lewis next calculated what temperature such a rocket's materials would have to stand. The figure came out about 506,000° F., which is about 80 times more than enough to melt a combustion chamber made of any known substance...
...Town. Through this complex, wholly artificial beehive of modern living, Connie Hilton moves with the speed-and often the freshness-of a cowboy on the town. No "bellhop with a manicure" -as some hotelmen are scornfully labeled in the trade-Connie Hilton is a towering (6 ft. 2 in.), broad-shouldered, leatherfaced extravert who proudly wears a $100 Stetson and talks with astonishing frankness about his income (see box] and business affairs...
...times he still seems a little amazed at the speed of his climb. While talking to an acquaintance some weeks ago, Hilton answered the phone, listened for a moment, then crowed with delight: "I just made half a million today." He bubbled out an explanation that the stock of Hilton Hotels Corp., of which he owns 400,-ooo shares or 26%, had risen five-eights of a point, giving him the paper profit. Then he soberly corrected himself: "No, it was just about $250,000 at that...