Word: useful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the moon's escape velocity is lower than the earth's, a lunar-based missile would spend less fuel in blastoff, could use it to increase speed of travel. Even with today's rocket engines, says the Air Force's Singer, a moon-based team could send a missile from moon to earth in considerably less than two days. "The improvements in space and missile technology that will be required actually to put a man on the moon will perforce include the means for reducing moon-to-earth transit times to the order of hours...
...National Science Foundation yesterday added $172,000 to the funds Richard M. Goody, professor of Meteorology, will use for research in atmospheric physics. Goody has also received $100,000 from the Ford Foundation and $20,000 from the Research Corporation of New York...
...money will pay for new equipment Goody intends to use in his studies, and the Ford Foundation Grant will finance a series of pre-doctoral fellowships in the field. The Research Corporation funds will cover incidental expenses...
Bulldog defensive play, however, does not match the Elis' offensive standard. Fullbacks Phil Meyer and Mal Black are big but slow, and alternating goalies Charlie Grigg and Andy Block have shown a tendency to wilt under pressure. The Elis use a three-back defense, with the center half functioning as a third fullback, to bolster their protection...
...general, combining introductory and General Education courses for Humanities or Social Sciences would be a disaster; departmental use of Gen Ed weakens its standing as an independent program. If the Committee can do no more than supervise a series of introductory courses, it will continue to lose prestige with an already apathetic Faculty...