Word: 46th
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sanford's campaign as "education Governor" has meant a 50% jump in the school budget, to a four-year total of $1.14 billion. The state has risen from 46th place to 42nd in spending per pupil. The 1963 assembly not only added to the previous budget for public schools, but also voted for three new four-year colleges and a statewide system of two-year community colleges. Industrial investments of almost $600 million came in during Sanford's first two years, and he credits the lure of better schools. Says the Ford Foundation's admiring President Henry...
...called them "gentlemen capital ists," and only occasionally suggested that all capitalists are really robbers and cheats. Communist delegations from all over the world crowded into Moscow for the 46th anniversary celebrations of the Bolshevik Revolution. But Nikita Khrushchev devoted a total of seven hours to a traveling group of 20 top American executives (plus one educator) as if he found more challenge in their company...
...classic Latin American scene. At 2 p.m. one day last week, eight tanks rumbled up to the presidential palace in Ecuador's Andean capital of Quito. Radio bulletins soon blared the news: Carlos Julio Arosemena, 44, the country's 46th President in 130 years, had gone the way of many of his predecessors-deposed by military coup. A crowd of demonstrators gathered at the palace to protest to the new rulers; and tanks opened fire. Three persons were killed, 17 wounded. In the palace, Arosemena refused to resign at first, then bowed to superior firepower and was bundled...
...Only one collision marred the 46th running of the Indianapolis 500, the fastest Memorial Day race-and one of the safest-in history. As usual, speed outstripped design: only 15 of the 33 low-slung racing cars that started managed to last the punishing 500-mile distance. A minor melee on the 19th lap knocked four cars out of the race, sent Driver Jack Turner to the hospital with a broken hip and a cracked toe. An early dropout was the 1961 winner, A.J. Foyt, whose Bowes Seal Fast Special threw a wheel at the 75-mile mark. The early...
...Warren Wacker, associate in Medicine in the Biophysics Research Laboratory of the Harvard Medical School, recently described his studies on the organism at the 46th annual meeting of the Federation of American Socities for Experimental Biology...