Word: bets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feeding a steam turbine to turn a generator, and many are the low-grade deposits that have remained untapped because it has become too expensive to mine the coal and ship it to distant markets. Now the U.S. Department of the Interior has made a modest $680,500 bet that Physicist Meredith Gourdine, 36, has found a promising answer to the dilemma...
Those you shouldn't bet against are easier to pick. First on the list go all Supreme Court Justices not already honored. The Corporation likes Supreme Court Justices better than anything except presidents of the World Bank...
...rule it is a bad idea to bet against bishops. Or cardinals. Especially if of an ecumenical bent. This year it would also be unwise to lay much money against Gardiner Day, who retires this year as rector of Christ Church...
...appears to be an attempt to rewrite the first chapters of the Book of Genesis. The first sentence blithers and blathers and blunders along for five pages and 1,390 words. Reading it can only be likened to the experience of a man who, having lost an election bet, has undertaken to eat a pad of Brillo and is wondering which is the more unpalatable-the steel-wool structure or the pink soapy filling. Sample Farrell: "Time moved slowly backwards through more than one thousand nine hundred and twenty years of A.D., and five thousand years of B.C., through...
...paintings, his collection is equally rich-and heavily weighted toward Americans. Thomas Eakins, for instance, is represented in a quantity surpassed only by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He has kept up with recent op and pop trends, owns 30 early and late works by Larry Rivers. His bet for future fame: Willem de Kooning, of whose works he owns 42. "If ever I have a museum," he once vowed, "I'm going to have a De Kooning room...