Word: delta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LEADING CONTENDER for $500 million supersonic fighter contract for 300 jets for West German air force is Lockheed's needle-nosed F-104 Starfighter, with Grumman's swept-wing Tiger and France's delta-wing Dassault Mirage close behind. Germans turned down Britain's experimental Saunders...
...here, many scholars believe, that Abraham was born some 4,000 years ago. The land was inhabited by a non-Semitic people called the Sumerians. They, drained the marshes of the delta and built a highly developed civilization of irrigated fields, pastures and theocratic city states. An 8-to-10-ft. deposit of clay from about 4000 B.C. indicates a possible Sumerian basis for the Biblical story of the Flood, and the Sumerian version has its Noah-a good man named Ziusudra who was instructed by two gods how to build an ark and save himself and his family from...
...altitude of 39,000 ft. one ay last week, Air Force Major Adrian . Drew pushed his F-ioiA twin-jet McDonnell Voodoo to full throttle and full afterburner, broke the world's official aerial speed record. Previous record, flown in March 1956 by a British Fairey Delta: ,132 m.p.h. Drew's official time, an average of one pass into the wind and one ass with it: 1,207.6 m.p.h...
JAMES L. KINCAID, Winthrop; Freshman Intramural Athletics; Union Debate Council; Bridge Club; Delta Sigma Rho; University Debate Council President; Ivy League Debate Council...
STEVEN R. RIVKIN, Lowell; Crimson; Debate Council; Delta Sigma Rho; HYDC; Society for Minority Rights; Hillel...