Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years to the day after the beeps of Sputnik I proclaimed the beginning of the space age, the U.S.S.R. celebrated the anniversary by announcing a far more advanced step into space: a rocket shot that this week sent a 600-lb. instrumented payload hurtling into space on a trajectory calculated to curve around the moon and swing back toward the earth. The moon probe (see SCIENCE) required a rocket thrust of at least 600,000 Ibs., twice the thrust of the U.S.'s most powerful rocket engine. The Soviet feat was all the more embarrassing to the U.S. because...
Once the team got started, it showed it will be a match for its Ivy League rivals this fall. The Cornell encounter could be the first step to the championship...
...government of the United States has made a great step forward in the recognition of its role assuring opportunity for all who can profit by higher education. It seems unfortunate that such a forward step should be the occasion of doubt--doubt concerning the responsibility of our institutions of higher education, and doubt concerning the loyalty of those they seek to help along the road to greater service to their country. Robert F. Goheen, President...
...December. This week at his press conference President Eisenhower said he was "getting sick and tired of the apparent impasse." Free collective bargaining, added Ike, "the logical recourse of a free people in settling industrial disputes, has apparently broken down." The President strongly suggested that the Administration would now step in if labor and management failed to reach agreement...
...hepatitis and amoebic dysentery. A rat-infested house on the atherapeutic isle served as prison for the man who had marched vast armies from Moscow to Madrid, and once ruled half the Christian world. Only a few years before, Napoleon had unwittingly forecast his fate: "It is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous...