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...would be easy to assume that Flexner was describing medical education today rather than in 1924. Unfortunately, this book did not have the impact of his devastating critique of proprietary schools written...
...invisible impact would, however, catch up with the nation soon enough. It had already shown up in one category. The Treasury reported last week that the loss in Britain's monetary reserves for May was $106 million, the highest one-month loss since sterling's serious weakness last July. Things are likely to get worse. The strike may already have cost Britain as much as $420 million in export sales...
...lunar altitude of 25,000 ft., the retrorocket was jettisoned and the vernier rockets took over the job of further reducing speed, stabilizing and gently guiding Surveyor along the proper trajectory toward its impact point. When it was 13 ft. above the lunar surface and descending at 3.3 m.p.h., the 620-lb. Surveyor shut down its verniers and fell the remaining distance. It struck the moon no harder than a parachutist hits the earth. And even this relatively small jolt was cushioned by hydraulic shock absorbers and crushable aluminum pads under Surveyor's legs and body...
...least four times before landing an instrument package intact on the moon and that the first seven of the ten planned Surveyor shots had been designated "engineering flights"-a tacit admission that U.S. scientists expected many failures before a successful soft landing was achieved. But when telemetry continued after impact-evidence that Surveyor had survived the landing-disbelief gave way to wild cheering. Half an hour later, on radioed command, the craft's television camera began to take its first pictures...
...more than a foot across. The terrain was pocked by an occasional small crater, and one picture clearly showed a hump on the horizon that is believed to be either a crater rim or a low hill. A view of one of Surveyor's feet showed that its impact had dented the surface a few inches, indicating to some scientists that the site had the consistency of a terrestrial ocean beach...