Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lima, Peru - Poet Laureate Tennyson wrote his poem (''in a few minutes") after reading the London Times's account. The Times reported 607; Tennyson used 600 in the interests of metrical smoothness. Later figures, like the returning British troopers, came home more slowly...
...lost in transit, nor was it misplaced. It was received by you, and you cashed it, franked it, cleared it through the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland on Feb. 15, returned it to the St. Anthony Park State Bank of St. Paul, which deducted the proper amount from my account and transmitted it to me canceled and perforated...
...Kansas, 78; on New York's suburban Long Island, 20. Many others are operating in the red, and overall first-quarter profits are down to a bare .8%, v. 4.3% last year. Said one disgusted Los Angeles dealer: "You can put your money in a savings account and get more than that...
...brightest, wittiest and most sparkling." She could act dance and sing, play the clavichord "to perfection," paint, draw, engrave precious stones, and spout about gardening, botany and natural history-"a more accomplished woman," says Author Mitford, "has seldom lived." The only interesting thing about her childhood comes from an account book, where she records payment of 600 livres to a fortune teller "for having predicted, when I was nine, that I would be the King's mistress...
...Marco Millions" had earlier been intended as a kick-off for the Harvard Theatre Fund, with all proceeds going to the University's newly-founded account...