Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Skyrocket, that has flown faster than sound "many times." Like the Air Force's pioneering XI, the Navy's Skyrocket is a rocket plane. But the X-I is intended to be dropped at high altitude from a B29, while the Skyrocket takes off under its own power. Inside its slim body is a powerful turbojet engine as well as the rocket motor. The turbojet is used first (with rocket assist at takeoff), to get the plane to high altitude. Then the rocket motor pushes it to supersonic speed...
With its swept-back wings and dual power plant, the Skyrocket is closer than the X-I to being a practical supersonic airplane. Flying on its turbojet alone, it has a respectable endurance: about half an hour. In combat, the rocket motor could give it brief bursts of superspeed...
...Catholic hierarchy came forward with its counterproposal. Under its provisions, all Catholic schools could be leased to the local education authority "at a rent which would allow for mortgage interest or redemption." The government would then support Catholic schools out of taxes, in return would have sole power to regulate school curricula and appoint teachers. Beyond the fact that the proposal would still leave the ownership of the schools in church hands, there was another big string tied to it: the teachers would be subject to Catholic approval "as regards religious belief, character and fitness, and the religious education provided...
...Shameful?" Brunner examines the specific application of Christianity to nine aspects of civilized life: technics, science, tradition, education, work, art, wealth, social custom and power. In putting each in its Christian place, he is not afraid to expose himself to the fire power of experts in the various fields. He tells scientists that there is nothing wrong with their subject except that it has grown too big for its britches. "Science knows what is, it does not know what ought to be ... Speaking in general, science in our day claims more room within the totality of human life than...
...Dependence on subsidies or production payments in lieu of a fair market price as a method of achieving [a fair farm] income is unsound and would impose a burden on the whole American economy through tax liability which would raise all costs of production-thereby lowering purchasing power and ultimately leading to a lower standard of living for the rank & file of consumers. [It] would place farmers at the mercy of congressional appropriations for their income...