Word: columned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indicated in your Letters column [July 15], the "small-bore minds" are in the majority, with their adverse opinions, regarding the forward direction of the Supreme Court...
...mountains. So when two years ago the Sultan's foreign oil drillers went to work near the northern border, the Imam's tribesmen attacked them. The Sultan struck back, sending a few hundred British-officered levies to quell the rebels. He advanced in a flying column of Land-rovers, and it was a walkover. The Imam retired to a remote village, his brother led to Saudi Arabia, and bedaggered sheiks by the hundreds kissed the Sultan's hand...
...evaluating a newspaper's performance, Rowse did much more than tally up the number of column inches a story received. He rightly states that length is one of the least important indications of bias. He asked a great many questions, such as: How soon after learning of a story did the paper print an account? Was it on the front page or an inside page? How prominently was it displayed? What was the size and wording of the headline? What was the tone and content of the story as it appeared? How were quotation marks used? Were there also front...
Your July 8 Letters column reports Mrs. E. Torkilsen as asking: "Is there any ideal way we can legally get rid of Chief Justice Warren?" The answer is yes, elect him President...
...created atoms remained to produce alpha particles. The scientists had their proof when these particles turned out to have almost exactly the energy that physical theory had predicted. Next, the plastic foil was burned away, the invisible residue dissolved in hydrochloric acid, and the acid then poured through a column filled with material that has varying attraction for different chemical elements. When alpha particles were found coming from the place in the column predicted for element 102, the scientists could be sure that they had succeeded...