Word: considerably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, at 96, Charles Boettcher died in the Brown Palace Hotel. He was one of the richest men in the U.S., and one of the least-known. Reporters dug into their files, found a late interview in which the failing old man had crackled: "The young man who wants...
Many otherwise unrelated diseases produce spasms, tremor or stiffness of muscles: infantile paralysis, cerebral palsy, chronic rheumatism, arthritis, Parkinson's disease (paralysis agitans), apoplexy, Pott's disease (tuberculosis of the spine), hardening of the arteries. The doctors tried the drug, given by mouth, on 59 patients; all but...
With both hands firmly clenched around a newly fashioned club, President Truman assured the jittery steel industry last week that there was no need to duck-yet. He "did not consider it appropriate" to invoke the drastic powers to control steel which the Republican Congress had unwittingly given him in...
Attitudes. Only 26.3% of the college graduates consider themselves Democrats, 38.3% Republicans, the rest independents. The college graduate was much more likely to vote in the last national election (78.9% did) than his non-college neighbor. And the chances are one in 20 that he ran for public office himself...
The Amsterdam meeting had its beginnings back in 1910, when missionaries of many non-Roman Catholic churches met in Edinburgh to discuss their common problems and the possibilities of cooperation. Among them was a U.S. Episcopal bishop, the Rt. Rev. Charles Henry Brent. In the midst of the proceedings, Bishop...