Word: compound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comment, but a Navy man said admiringly: "They do write good letters down in Muscat." Fact is the British Consul General has little else to do, apart from requesting manumission for escaping slaves, who by tradition become entitled to freedom if they can manage to enter his compound and clasp both hands around his flagpole...
Crassus, actually only a competitor for the consulship while Spartacus was on the loose, is presented as the Dictator of Rome. To compound the cinematic crime, Caesar, the empire builder, is portrayed by Actor Gavin, a rose-lipped, sloe-eyed young man who looks as though he never got to the first conjugation, let alone the Gallic Wars. And Antoninus, a Roman poet, is played by Actor Curtis with an accent which suggests that the ancient Tiber was a tributary of the Bronx River. To these blunders is added the customary quota of glaring goofs (a map of Italy that...
Seymour E. Harris '20, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, upheld the importance of increasing economic growth. Because growth rates add up like compound interest, he said, a four per cent annual increase results in a 141 per cent rise in twenty years, while a two per cent growth brings only a 50 per cent increase in the same period...
Study of the eyes of beetles is already paying off. A group of scientists at Tübingen, Germany, found that a beetle's compound eyes can measure the speed of a moving background with random shadings on it. After finding out how the beetles do it, the scientists set to work building an instrument on the same principle to measure the ground speed of airplanes. It didn't need all of the compound eye, only two facets of it simulated by photocells watching the ground from the nose and tail of the plane...
...earned local fame as a healer with one modest improvement on witch doctors' methods: he routed out decayed teeth with pliers instead of a spear or rusty nail. The hospital was 40 miles from the nearest railway; when the Barkers took over, it was an iron-roofed bungalow compound inhabited by a poorly trained staff of nine, seven invalids, two cows...