Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wombat and looks like all the downtrodden weeds, wets, clots, new bugs, old lags, young ticks, cads, roters, and bulies of the British public school system swept into one messy pile. He alone, as Author Geoffrey Willans and Cartoonist Ronald Searle describe him, is quite enough to account for the current teacher shortage in England...
...realistic solution to traffic problems must, Morton added, take into account all the factors and plan accordingly. He urges revising the all-night parking ban to permit parking on streets which are wide enough to hold parked cars in addition to moving traffic...
...told a bit more about the British spies who escaped in 1951 and are now apparently alive somewhere behind the Iron Curtain. The 3,500-word white paper was not the whole story, but with the facts contributed by Petrov, it made possible for the first time a cohesive account of The Case of the Missing Spies...
...America last week introduced its huge new electronic friend ERMA. which Bank President S. Clark Beise hailed as "the greatest advance in bookkeeping in the history of banking." Beise's ERMA (Electronic Recording Machine-Automatic), tended by nine operators, can handle all the bookkeeping for 50,000 checking accounts, takes the place of 50 workers. Operators merely feed in checks and deposit slips, punch dollar amounts on ERMA's keyboard. The checks and slips have customers' account numbers coded on them in magnetized ink; by reading these, ERMA keeps track of withdrawals and deposits, figures...
Besides, my roomate gives me a garbled account of a game after watching it from his last-section seat next to Dillon Field House. I heartily endorse your campaign to let WHRB broadcast home football games. J. R. Zwelten...