Word: unite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead of vanes to deflect the jet, the Neptune will have the whole "thrust unit" (combustion chamber and discharge tube) mounted so that it can be moved slightly. Gyroscopic stabilizing instruments in the nose will play the jet from side to side like water from a hose, overcoming the rocket's tendency to wobble on the takeoff...
...most heavily backed polio research centers in the U.S., the Hopkins unit has received $732,500 from the National Foundation for Infanuie Paralysis, is about to get $425,000 more...
Will Clayton was given the most delicate mission of all. He would leave within the next few days to find out just what the nations of Europe would do to help themselves, e.g., by forming an economic unit which the U.S. might be persuaded to support. But he was charged with making a suggestion that was not a suggestion because, in Marshall's words, "the initiative must come from Europe." And he carried an offer to help which was not an offer, since it depended on an attitude of the U.S. public that had not yet been taken. Before...
...basic, underlying, never-varying tradition of [our] republic is insistence upon . . . the worth of the individual. . . . It seems true in society, as in nature, that the greatest energy is created by releasing the power of the smallest unit. In one case, the individual; in the other case, the atom...
...help and money, it studied Andean Man in the flesh. The highland Indians, Dr. Monge found, get their resistance to altitude from definite physical differences. Their lungs are bigger than normal, with more blood vessels in them. Their blood is in greater volume and contains more oxygen per unit. Their hearts can do 12% more work than the hearts of sea-level men. Their nerve cells are less sensitive to anoxia (oxygen starvation...