Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Interstellar Escape. Full escape from the gravitational pull of the sun would be tougher. Starting from the earth's surface, a ship would need 36,800 m.p.h. Soaring past Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, it would reach the outer limits of the solar system with almost no speed left. Then, like a chip on a glassy lake, it could drift for millions of years before it approached the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, which is 25 trillion miles away from the sun. Man's spaceships can probably reach interstellar escape velocity in a generation, but there will...
...party bodies will grip the task with all their energy," concluded Khrushchev, "the goals set by the seven-year plan will not only be fulfilled but overfulfilled." In other words, the party must get tougher with the peasants-or Khrushchev is not going to hit his ambitious target of raising farm production another...
Considerably more substantive than his press conference was the work on the budget and State of the Union continuing behind closed White House doors. Shaping up were legislative proposals for a labor bill tougher than the Kennedy-Ives measure, which was defeated in the House this year, and for a civil rights bill, probably aimed at enabling the Justice Department to intervene directly in civil rights cases (Democratic liberals helped knock a similar proposal out of the 1957 civil rights bill...
...Harvard's academic standards become tougher, the number of admissable--let alone attractive--athletes gets smaller in relation to the rest of the population. When a top "scholar-athlete" is captured by the Big Ten, another Massachusetts college, or even one of the less fussy Ivy League schools, there is that much less material available for a Harvard team. If no other college recruited, or if Harvard's drawing power in small town high schools were as great as it is at Exeter, there would be no problem...
Northeastern has been routed by Springfield and Boston College, but came within three points of upsetting the University of Massachusetts with a second half rally. According to coach Richard Dukeshire, the Huskies have also improved, and should be tougher every time...