Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some of the daily press heralded this 'race' . . . After a while, however, the cries of the professional spectators died down. It began to be apparent that the wrong horse was coming in ahead. Two years and three months from the time construction was started, the first unit at TVA's Shawnee plant was placed in commercial operation, while the smokestacks of Joppa . . . were still clean and cold...
...Conditioning. A compact, thermostat-controlled, heating-cooling-ventilating unit for automobiles was announced by Nash-Kelvinator Corp. The unit is installed under the hood and right front fender. By turning a knob, the motorist can switch on either the heating or the refrigerating element, bring in a stream of outside air warmed or cooled to the temperature set on the thermostat...
Currently, a student must take one extra course during his four years in the College if he is a member of an ROTC unit. In the Harvard curriculum of four courses per year, ROTC credits fill 23 percent of the total course requirements, far more than they do at most universities. The idea underlying the University's four course requirement is that by working at such a rate, a student will be able to devote more time to each course. Consequently, the intellectual caliber of Harvard courses is ordinarily higher. And when the military courses are compared with these other...
...addition to proposed changes, the report will support the continued placing of "high calibre freshmen" in Claverly, and oppose any change that would add Claverly to any House or make it more of a unified social unit...
Flying came slowly to Recruit Knoke. It took him 94 flights to learn to solo, and there followed one forced landing (severe head injuries), one snarled undercarriage and a first-class crash (more head injuries). When he arrived at an operational unit and met the veterans, his gleaming new badges of rank seemed as useless as any young American...