Word: 400th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus, as the current season started, the over-all total of productions since the War--student-written or otherwise--stood at the impressive figure of 426. For those interested in such things as the millionth car to go through the Holland Tunnel, the 400th post-War production turned out to be the Hasty Pudding show, Run for the Money...
...French Protestants crowded the narrow roads with their cars and buses on a pilgrimage to the thick-walled, stone peasant cottage and the tiny museum next to it, which are crammed with relics of one of the most bitter religious wars Europe has known. They were marking the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Protestant Reformed Church in the Cevennes region, which saw so much of the historic struggle with Roman Catholicism, and the sooth anniversary of the death of Protestantism's great restorer, Antoine Court...
...centuries, measuring time was simple. A day was one full rotation of the earth, and a second, the smallest unit needed, was 1/86,400th of a day. But as scientists' standards became more exacting, they were bothered by the fact that the earth's rotation fluctuates slightly from day to day and slows one second a century as tides and other influences slow the earth's spin. Such tiny variations become important in space-age problems. Example: plotting the position of a long-range missile, where widely separated stations have to coordinate their observations within millionths...