Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unless he joins with previous experience, the new members's first step is to secure a Student Pilot Certificate, restricted to those 16 years or older, who know English and have at least 20/30 corrected vision in each eye. Since learning to fly is not like driving a car--for an aviator cannot stop to think things over--ground instruction is required before the student goes aloft...
...Committee on Educational Policy's unanimous recommendation that Harvard should not participate in any program which requires Harvard to administer a loyalty oath is a major step toward putting the full weight of the University's prestige against the loyalty provision of NDEA...
...disclaimer affidavit provision from the NDEA. At the same time, Senator Kennedy emphasized the need for effective protest at the student level. The Student Council has created a committee to study the question, and, although the exact purposes and plans of this group are unclear, the move is a step in the right direction...
...University's action to date has been far weaker than the situation demands. It is not enough to "freeze" the NDEA funds without following this step by an almost immediate withdrawal from the student loan program. It is not enough to write a few letters protesting the loyalty provisions to the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, who is on the colleges' side anyway...
...since 1934, while the prices of the world's goods and services have more than doubled, and that not enough gold has been produced to keep up with the world's economic strides. The freeing of gold, they feel, is a logical economic adjustment that would 1) step up production of gold, 2) increase the free world's purchasing power in dollars by some $20 billion (if the price were doubled), 3) bring most of the $10 billion to $12 billion in gold hoarded by wary Europeans back into productive...