Word: subs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Construction of three experimental submarines at a cost of $50 million. One would be a target and research sub, designed to test the high-speed hull needed for atomic power. The other two would be a 250-ton baby submarine and a 2,200-tonner carrying its own oxygen supply for a "closed cycle" power plant, eliminating the need for surface breathing...
...Only 40% of men are highly fertile and unlikely ever to have difficulty in causing conception; 35% to 40% are relatively fertile, but will have fewer children than they may want; 20% to 25% are sub fertile or infertile and will probably never become fathers...
...dredging and flood control projects that the government undertakes are given over to the Army Engineers, responsible directly to Congress. The Engineers hire sub-contractors and bear the entire cost of projects from the tidy appropriation. Even if the improvement helps only one individual or company, the Government still has to pay the bill. This is the one way Congress has of letting the people back home know that the legislators are looking after their interests...
There are four sub-fields within the department: Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Sociology, and Social Anthropology, each of which was an independent department before 1946. The concentrator specializes in one of these four, but usually takes at least one half-course in each of the others to prepare for the general exams...
...field is sub-divided into countries and centuries, and a student can concentrate his minimum of eight courses in anything from the History and Literature of the Renaissance or of Greece and Rome to a study of American or English civilization. The degree he finally receives depends more on his senior thesis and oral exams than on his grades, however, since the department thinks a general knowledge of a field, pulled together in individual tutorial sessions, more important than the topics studied in isolated courses. A student meets his tutor once every two weeks as a sophomore, and every week...