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Word: surely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little surprised by this regulation. I'm almost sure it couldn't go on the term bill; it's something that should be taken up at RUS," Mrs. Genevieve Austin, Radcliffe Dean of Residence, said last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cabot Hall Fines Bells Forgetters | 11/21/1968 | See Source »

...about to take your first jump, with your basic fear of death. Even though in 102,000 jumps at the Orange Parachuting Center they've never had anyone killed, you have to be thinking you're about to die (or at least could die) in order to make sure it won't happen...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: On Jumping Out of Airplanes | 11/21/1968 | See Source »

...little different for different malfunctions). It takes from a second to a second and a half to reach down against a 125 mile an hour wind to find the ripcord on your stomach and pull it and then punch the bag to make sure the chute is knocked out. It then takes two seconds for the emergency chute to become fully open. At this point you are travelling at the terminal velocity for a falling human, 125 miles an hour; you started with less than half a mile to fall...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: On Jumping Out of Airplanes | 11/21/1968 | See Source »

...FACT, computers have plenty of manpower and are setting up programming courses in high schools and colleges to make sure they get more. They also have lots of money--about $10 billion. They have ensured their security during this early stage of their development by making themselves indispensable to the advancement of knowledge in almost every field of human endeavor. Indeed, they have caused an explosion of activity. It might almost be said that in creating more work than they have saved, computers have programmed society for their...

Author: By Anne DE Saint phalle, | Title: If What We Say Is What We Mean..... Then Who Means What the Computer Says? | 11/20/1968 | See Source »

...father felt because the lawnmovers were selling well in the hardware store he worked in and which your mother felt because she was sitting around young and complacent with little else to do; 2) the act of conception was something they had to try several nights before they were sure they had something--why on one of those nights you were conceived and on the others you weren't is beyond them; 3) you as an individual, and not someone totally different, were created because the sperm cell with our genetic code happened to fertilize an egg before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Your Life etc. | 11/20/1968 | See Source »

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