Word: counting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Armistice was declared in November 1918, and the University was left to count its losses. More than 11,000 Harvard men fought in the Great War and Harvard lost 375 of its students and former students, more than any other University...
...middle of the spring term, the Boston Elevated Railway Co. lowered the rates of a ride to Park St. from 8c to 5c. Apparently to took too much time to count the pennies. The Federal Railway Commission set the price of meals on interstate rail-roads at $1.25 a plate, thus assuring that Californians would no longer have to fast on their four-day trip East...
After he returned home from Biafra last year, Von Rosen continued to worry about the underdog. Resuming routine hauls for Transair Sweden, the count commenced secret military planning on the side. Since he will be 60 years old this summer and can no longer fly commercially as a captain, Von Rosen talked about opening a flight school; on this premise, he approached Malmö Flygindustri, builders of the MFI-9B, and received permission to take up one of the trainers for familiarization flights. He searched quietly for pilots and demanded, with reason, that they be experienced. Studying press photographs...
...count's employer at first treated his exploits with extraordinary cool: Von Rosen was not due on the job until next week, said a Transair Sweden spokesman, and what he did on his own time was not the company's business. Eventually, afraid that some African states who side with Nigeria might revoke the firm's air privileges, Transair reversed that position. Von Rosen was being grounded, the firm said, because he had violated a company rule. The rule specifies that vacationing employees cannot fly planes without permission from Transair. In any case, it looked...
...coat) and introduces them to the wonders of the old-fashioned bidet (turn on the spray, balance a pingpong ball on it; the ball will stay there for hours). With the panicky provincialism of a country kid clutching his wallet pocket on Broadway, he continually cautions them to count their change in taxis, to drink only bottled beer in nightclubs ("Mickey Finns are far from uncommon"), and to drive carefully. He observes with a shudder: "Your chances of spilling your blood or dying are three and a half times greater on French roads than on American roads...