Word: calendar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...playing fields of Stoke Mandeville, Aylesbury, England, were cleared last week for a competition called the Paralympics, and a crowd of 3,000 watched teams from eight nations fight out the two-day meet. The sports on the calendar were commonplace: netball (similar to U.S. basketball), snooker, archery, table tennis, javelin throwing, shot-putting and swimming. The manner of competition, though, was singular. Each of the 200 contestants was a paraplegic, denied the use of his lower body and forced to remain in a wheelchair for life. Some players were so badly crippled that the table-tennis paddles...
Queen Elizabeth II, who will be officially 27 on her State Birthday June 11, became 27 by the calendar. The day was spent quietly at Windsor Castle, where she enjoyed a walk with her children and a family luncheon. Later in the week, armed with her camera, the Queen joined Princess Margaret and a group of royal horse fanciers at Badminton, Gloucestershire, where they spent a day in the country watching the Olympic horse trials. A final note to the birthday week was gleaned by the London Daily Express from a French genealogical book and confirmed by a member...
According to the Committee's program, which will begin next year for 800 students at the Schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Dental Medicine, office care, home care, and Blue Cross hospitalization will be provided for $50 per calendar year...
...years, managed to maintain that rate. In 1907 he announced he would write a major novel of 200,000 words, on Aug. 30, 1908 noted: "Finished The Old Wives' Tale at 11:30 a.m. today. 200,000 words." The last entry in his journal, in the last full calendar year of his life, ends: "Total of words for the year...
...Results in such conditions are pretty Inconclusive." Wednesday's time on a race day, and the only reason Love went through with the trial was that he had already postponed it too often because of bad weather. The weather has been rough all spring, and has thrown off any calendar plan for trials, but with his first race three days away, Love couldn't put it off any longer...