Word: almost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parents across the country are learning, school can expand the marriage rate as well as the mind. Student marriages in Dallas are increasing almost twice as fast as the population of the schools. In 1958 the Dallas rate soared 41% to 480 married students (including nine in grade schools), compared to 286 in 1957 and 72 in 1953. Though one somewhat tardy student was aged 27, last year's marrying kind were mainly (66%) aged 17 or younger, with three 13 or younger. Among them, they had 72 children...
...Wright had to wait years to see his "impossible" ideas bear fruit. And the more adventurous the pioneer, the longer the wait. One of the most adventurous of all is Manhattan's Frederick Kiesler, who at 62 has originated more ideas and seen fewer of them built than almost any other architect of his time...
Heavy electrical equipment makers also reported healthy improvement in new orders. General Electric's large steam-turbine-generator department said that orders thus far this year are almost equal those for all of 1958, while Allis-Chalmers' backlog of unfilled orders has risen 72% since the end of last year, now stands at $225 million, a record peacetime total. Other sectors of the capital-goods complex, such as generator makers, locomotive builders, and construction equipment manufacturers, reported rising new business. Summed up McClure Kelley, president of Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton (machine tools, road-building equipment): "The improvement comes from...
...promptly trebled. (He sold it at that point; it later collapsed.) Darvas trained for the market just as methodically as he had studied his dancing, read some 200 books on the market and the great speculators, spent eight hours a day until saturated. Two of the books he rereads almost every week: Humphrey Neill's Tape Reading and Market Tactics and G. M. Loeb's The Battle for Investment Survival. He still spends about two hours a day on his stock tables. Even though he has made a fortune he plans to keep on dancing. Dancing...
...Within the next 30 years," says Author Knowles, "explorers would find almost 10 billion bbl. in its 70,000 square miles. There were more giant oil fields lying under this wasteland than would be found in any other single area in the U.S. . . . The 2,000,000 acres belonging to the University of Texas made it one of the richest universities in the world...