Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pipe base not unlike the landing gear of a small helicopter, CURV mounts four long red ballast tubes for depth control, three electric propulsion motors, lights, sonar, film and TV cameras. Controlled from the surface, it can clamp a detachable claw onto objects up to 3 ft. wide, then back away leaving the claw and a buoyed line attached. Though it is normally used to retrieve spent torpedoes, Guest acted on a hunch and ordered CURV flown out from California...
These general requirements are designed to allow quite a lot of flexibility in the individual program because it is recognized that concentrators will be preparing themselves to apply mathematics to wide and growing classes of problems. The best guides are the student's own sense of suitability and his adviser's approval...
Both the concentration's strength and weakness is its attempt to serve a wide spectrum of needs and interests. It must spread its ability and effort a little thinly, but at the same time is able to draw on such a wide range of courses and men that it can afford to emphasize the best...
There is no lack of work for all such chemicals, The National Institute's former director, Dr. Francis A. Arnold Jr., estimates in round, "open wide" numbers that there are 1,000,000,000 unfilled cavities...
...Pack of Jews." Today the Mafia seems to have agreed to live and let Dolci live, although he has given wide publicity to telling statistics-such as that in one village Mafia murders since 1945 outnumber the village's dead of both world wars. As for the Roman Catholic Church, Dolci is now a "lapsed Catholic," and he blames the breach on the "lack of a tradition of charity, even on the level of almsgiving" of the church in Sicily. His fall from the faith he also attributes to the sermons of two Sicilian priests: one denounced a destitute...