Word: core
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Originally sponsored by a core of 30 students, many of them leading members of College religious, political, and other organizations, the group added 50 names last night to the roll of students pledging support for their basic program and "Save the Peace" rally of April...
Vincent Brandt and Captain Ted Backe are the core of Barnaby's ripening fruit, Brandt is a hard hitter, Backe steady and versatile, and as a doubles due they can dish up about any kind of return from any position, reports Barnaby...
Soon machines were shipped in, roads were snaked around Itabira's core, and test drillings were sunk into the solid heart. The peak's top 300 feet proved out as "compact hematite," red as rust and heavy to the hand-and the best ore there is. Below were huge deposits of "Canga" (54-62% iron) and soft "Itabarite" "(45-52%). After the tests, the work went ahead faster than ever. Though mechanization was by no means complete, Rio Doce was showing results. Last year, 700-odd Brazilian miners, with the help of two U.S. superintendents...
Virginia Woolf appreciated the massive social novels of Fielding and Thackeray, but they did not even write about the questions that interested her. She sought to penetrate beyond the appearances of daily experience to the inner core of life. For this she employed three essential symbols : Time, Space and the Sea, the perennial aspects of life's hazy patterns. By concentrating all of her attention on a moment's experience she tried to detect its ties with the past, its anticipation of the future. And while she could not answer the questions she posed, she found...
Here is a novel that is all skill and brilliance on the outside-English Novelist Clewes knows his way around words-but morally sick at the core. As such, it seems symptomatic of much current writing...