Word: system
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without mentioning the Dean's resignation, President Pusey last night at the Quincy House inaugural dinner praised Bender for his work as Dean of the College in strengthening the House system...
...food. But in the long run, Wladyslaw Gomulka and his planners were clearly committed to the proposition that Poland's only salvation lies in a return to collectivization. Difficulty was that they dared not try to bring it back by force, were reduced instead to touting a voluntary system of cooperative "agricultural circles," designed to introduce communal tractors as a subtle step in the direction of collectivization...
Root of the Glueck system is indeed an actuarial method. After gathering elaborate statistics on thousands of criminals, the Gluecks have isolated key factors that tip off the future behavior of men, women or children with a criminal bent. Result: with the Gluecks' "prediction tables," judges, policemen and social workers have "a promising path through the dense forest of guesswork, hunch and vague speculation concerning theories of criminal behavior...
...station itself weighs 278.5 kg. [614 lbs.]." This description apparently means that the third-stage rocket has apparatus for turning itself in space and firing small rockets to correct its course, either by obedience to radio orders from the ground or under the instruction of its own inertial guidance system. After the course had been corrected, said the Soviet announcement, the rocket was detached from the station-most likely to keep it from interfering with the "station's" radio transmission-but it followed along on a very similar course. Unless the station has guiding apparatus...
Talk about a change takes two forms. One is that the U.S. should junk its present managed-money system (in which gold is used only as a currency reserve and to settle international accounts) and return to the fully convertible gold standard, abandoned in 1933, under which dollars could be exchanged for gold coins. The other-usually joined with the first-is that the U.S. should double or triple the present gold price of $35 an ounce, thus devaluing the dollar and in effect automatically increasing the monetary value of the official gold holdings of the free world...