Word: statics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vast advantage the Communists would have in space exploration through their ability to lift heavy loads aloft, the Eisenhower Administration got moving in 1958 on the 1,500,000-lb.-thrust Saturn booster, a relatively primitive design of eight engines in a single cluster. The Saturn has been static-tested, but will not be operational until 1965 or 1966. Only recently has the program been allotted anything more than a shoestring budget for research and development...
...photography was then in its rude infancy, and its slow action -10 to 30 seconds' exposure time-could not match the Special's quick hand and eye. Men such as Mathew Brady, best known of the Civil War photographers, lumbered up in their wagons to take static pictures after the battle, or gathered portraits of the generals and the men before the battle had begun. The fight itself was the province of the artist, who usually sat on a hilltop, scanning the battle with his glasses, and came down later to talk to survivors...
...some by his predecessors, his contemporaries and his students. The show commemorates the sooth anniversary of the artist's death, but it is also an attempt on the part of Spain to put Velásquez in proper focus. To the modern eye, his canvases have seemed somewhat static alongside the high drama of El Greco and the agonized intensity of Goya. Yet Velásquez sang a song of life as rich and full as any of his countrymen...
...18th century Enlightenment, with its indiscriminate, omnivorous, ravenous appetite for all facts about all nature. Every blessed thing on earth (Ben had little theological curiosity) he wrote about, asked about, or collected facts about-vacuum jars, the "humors" produced by yellow fever, machines for producing static electricity (fatal to some rats), systems of government and ventilation, the geology of Pennsylvania, the weather, the making of glass, the weaving of cloth, and the proper way to build a fort. When he was not advertising muskets for sale he was procuring them for his Pennsylvania militia, drawing up the order of companies...
Since the College language requirement will remain static for some time, the language departments now feel they can draft new placement tests without fear of further revisions due to changing standards...