Word: across
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WALKED out of my room back onto the ward. I sat in one of the big brown chairs across from the TV and for a while wallowed in the luxury of time. I knew I was going to be in the hospital for three days and during that time I had absolutely nothing to do. The only comparable experience I can remember was when my family was camping out on Cape Hatteras. It was Sunday night and raining and there were no books to read and no radio to listen to and no place to go. Then it was great...
This glass was probably formed from meteor impacts that splattered molten rock across huge distances, Frondel said. These impacts may also send shock waves comparable to those from an atom bomb blast through the lunar soil, melting some particles into a glass...
...attempted theft of the Gutenberg Bible in August and the increase of fires in university libraries across the country have caused Widener Library officials to tighten their security measures...
Died. Adam Gimbel, 75, president of Saks Fifth Avenue stores for 43 years; of pancreatitis; in Manhattan. When his cousin Bernard F. Gimbel merged with Horace Saks in 1924, Adam Gimbel took over the Fifth Avenue store and opted for opulence and expansion, opening 29 more branches across the U.S. until today Saks Fifth Avenue is the nation's largest specialty chain, accounting for 40% of Gimbel Brothers' $600 million annual sales...
Like many other farm towns across the country, Forest City, Iowa (pop. 2,900) was dying. The region's corn and hog farms were too small to be tilled profitably, and its greatest exports were people. Youngsters grew up and moved to nearby Minneapolis - and beyond - to find work, leaving their parents behind to rock in the sun and talk over old times...