Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chairman Jasper F. Crouse 1Ed. said yesterday that a committee of 26 is seeking contributions from each of the School's 248 students. Funds raised will help the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research in its drive to raise at least $1,000,000 toward the Center...
...large number of test-class required to achieve significant results, David Kahn, president of the society, hopes that a large number of people will offer their services. A favorable attitude toward ESP is in no way necessary...
Without scrapping the rotating schedules, there remain two ways to case the burden on instructors teaching the courses involved. First, University Hall might advance the deadline for grades in those courses which meet toward the end of the exam period. If this would make it too tough for the Administrative Board to examine the grades of students going on or coming off probation, there is another possibility: The inter-term recess might be lengthened. This would allow instructors more time to deal fully with the bluebooks, and it would give students the satisfaction of knowing that a term's work...
...diameter, with a loaded weight of 96,500 Ibs. It would have small wings and a ramjet as well as a rocket motor. Its maximum speed, 9,140 m.p.h., would carry the ship 1,200 miles on an elliptical course outside the atmosphere. As it curved down toward the earth, it would meet the air again and turn into a non-powered glider. Coasting through the air for another 1,800 miles, it would land at 150 m.p.h.-not much more than the landing speed of many modern fighter craft. Duration of flight from Los Angeles to New York...
...Closing Door is much more seriously written than the usual thriller and is full of clinical detail and therapeutic advice, some of it Freud and some of it scrambled. If this adds to the weight of the play, it only proves, in terms of good melodrama, a dead weight. Toward the end, however, as the adolescent events that poisoned Vail's life emerge simultaneously with the frightful method he took to find release, The Closing Door achieves an extremely gruesome ten minutes...