Word: calls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City's able 19,000 police answer a call every 47 seconds. But the city's felony rate (1,028 per 100,000) is below the nation...
...flooding, Lawrence Gainor braved a fiery arc, crawled between the melting, short-circuited cables, disconnected the switches, and so prevented fire which undoubtedly would have cut off more of the Squalus' crew from rescue. His performance, said his commander in his hearing last week, was "heroism beyond the call of duty...
...room they will sit as on a sort of scientific Olympus, and each will make a formal statement of the most interesting truths he knows about biological cells and protoplasm. Then they will swap ideas and comments and, inevitably, some of them will, in the most abstruse scientific terms, call some others liars...
...jack-of-all-biology. Perhaps for the same reason he has the kind of extra-level head which men who are not specialists sometimes have. No dodo, despite his amiable nature, he has a merry tongue which articulates scientific problems with what the contemporaries of his younger days called witticisms. His present contemporaries call them cracks...
...Production plans call for 1,000 a day to roll off the assembly line...