Word: ruggedness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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The concentration requirements actually are quite flexible. One needs only the basic Math course (although 105 is to be strongly recommended), two courses in a Physics more advanced than 10 or 11, and a course in a related field. Honors means an extra course and a half. Competition for graduate...
This week, after a ticker-tape welcome on lower Broadway and an honorary degree from Columbia University, the debonair salesman of South American democracy embarked on a rugged program of visits. After New York, González planned to see Philadelphia, the TVA, Texas' oilfields and New Orleans.
Arthur H. Motley, president of Parade Publication, Inc. set the "let's-be-realistic" tone of the meeting. The U.S. market, said he, "is rugged [and] competitive ... but it is a huge market and [you] have not even cracked the surface . . ."
Aged deputies such as Marcel Cachin (80), women members, and less resilient types, including tubby Party Secretary Jacques Duclos-all of whom usually sit in the front rows-moved to the rear. Their places were taken by young, rugged backbenchers from among the party's 183 Deputies. A dozen...
Under normal conditions, the Norwegians could outjump most of the rest of the world on one leg. In the first half of the two-part Nordic combined event (jumping and cross-country), they went about proving it. Norway took the first five places. The best mark: a formful, 223-ft...