Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Lowell's main reasons for buildings seven upper-class Houses was to provide a social and recreational unit for the large and scattered student body. Today, although College students are no longer spread throughout Cambridge rooming houses, the enrollment is larger than Lowell ever could have guessed in 1930. The enlarged College of 1955 demands that each House take on an increasingly important job: to provide new activities for its members and to help organize existing College-wide activities on a House level...
Coach Lloyd Jordan, who said Monday he "might have run the boys a little too hard last week," sent his first two teams through a light workout yesterday. The third unit played in the JV game against Tufts...
...this, there are many bright spots. Westinghouse is moving fast in the growing field of industrial atomics. It turned out the atomic-propulsion unit for the submarine Nautilus and is building reactors for an aircraft carrier and for fleet-type submarines. Westinghouse is also constructing the reactor and parts for Shippingport, the first U.S. central atomic-power station...
...married officers, sailors and marines and their families in the first mass Salk immunization of adults. So far, 19 people have been stricken, the majority of them with paralytic polio, and one pregnant service wife has died. Dr. Robert S. Poos, head of the Navy's Preventive Medicine Unit at Pearl Harbor, blames the outbreak on the mixing up of "new susceptibles and carriers from all over the world," wants to see the Salk vaccine made one of the compulsory shots given to servicemen and their dependents before leaving for Hawaii...
...repeatedly outbid some of the biggest U.S. firms for contracts, and been able to deliver. On the fire-control system, for example, the Air Force gave Hughes a year to develop the project from scratch; nine months later, an Air Force pilot flying a jet fitted with the prototype unit shot down an unseen target plane automatically...