Word: united
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge City Board of Appeals has removed the last major obstacle facing construction of a proposed 136-unit apartment building near the Law School, but the Middlesex Superior Court may overrule the decision. The structure is designed to relieve the acute shortage of housing for married graduate students...
...couple of weeks later he got a Navy Cross when his planes sank some Japanese ships in Torpedo Junction off the eastern Solomons. To ward the end of the war, he had com mand of the escort carrier Chenango when the ship earned a Navy Unit Commendation for operations off Okinawa...
...unit for measuring relative loudness of sounds, the decibel is approximately the smallest degree of difference that, a human ear can detect between the loudness of two sounds...
Charles Stark Draper, 59, head of M.I.T.'s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and of its Instrumentation Lab, was once trying to spell out the meaning of dyne centimeter, a tiny unit of torque (twisting force). "A dyne centimeter," said Draper, a sociable chap, "is just about the amount of torque that would have to be applied to my arm to get me to take a drink." Draper's contributions to aeronautic and missile technology include the A-4 gunsight that gave U.S. Sabre jets clear superiority over Russian MIGs in Korea and the inertial guidance systems that control...
After two overwhelming victories over M.I.T. and Tufts, the freshman basketball team is making coach Bruce Munro seem like an expert prophet. At the beginning of the season, Munro warned that his team had no individual stars, but functioned well as a close unit...