Word: weight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...states as Oregon, where junior col leges are rare, many educators have begun to worry about what the tidal wave of students will do to their schools unless admissions standards go up. "It seems to me," says Chancellor John Richards of the state higher education system, "that if the weight of numbers of students threatens college instructional quality, then it is our clear obligation to control the numbers." Adds President Jean Paul Mather of the University of Massachusetts, which is studying a plan to consider only the top 20% of state high-school students: "In the future, we are going...
...development that helps make this progress possible is Mallory 1000 metal, a unique development of Mallory powder metallurgy. Already providing required balance in the nose of guided missiles, Mallory 1000 is twice as dense as steel or brass and far stronger than lead . . . actually outdoes nature in packing concentrated weight into the smallest possible space. As the pendulum in self-winding wrist watches, the rotor in gyroscopic control mechanisms, counterweights in airplane ailerons, and in dozens of other applications . . . this unique, man-made metal is another example of the way Mallory prepares for tomorrow's progress-today...
Cars which now average 3,450 lbs. will use more lightweight aluminum and magnesium, will thus get no heavier. The car weight per horsepower, which fell from 33 Ibs. to 15 Ibs. between 1946 and 1957, will hit a low of 12 Ibs. in '61. Since this "is the range of the present Corvette and Thunderbird sports cars, the average car of 1961 may perform as well as today's sports...
...recently published volume of euphoria titled The Happy Life of a Doctor, Boston's Dr. Roger I. Lee, 75, past president of the A.M.A., propounded the happy thought that a fat man loves all the world. Wrote the portly doctor, whose own weight is "top secret" (estimate: over 275 Ibs.): "I do not mind being jumped upon by some hideous . . . painted Jezebel who shrilly proclaims that her weight is perfect and who looks upon my rotund figure with abhorrence . . . What one can see of her under the .mask of chemical cosmetics seems muddy . . . Her skin is wrinkled . . . neck...
...handling 9,000 cars daily from remote-control panels. Electronic brains made by International Business Machines will sort, classify, route and guide all freight cars from an inclined switching hump to their proper tracks automatically; electronic signals will operate all switches; electronic scales will record each car's weight; radar-operated speed retarders will check the car's wheels to be sure that each coupling is made at precisely the proper speed. Saving to the Pennsy: up to 50% in the time for freight cars to clear the yards, plus millions in wages paid to yard crews...