Word: countings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question that faces today's student is "What can I get with my degree?" rather than "What have I become when I get my degree?" After all, it is grades that count when applying for grad schools. Why get excited and involved in irrelevancies such as "knowledge for knowledge's sake...
...third assumption was that between 1956 and 1961 India could count on getting at least $1.6 billion in foreign aid. Proudly, the Indians asked for loans, not grants. A month ago Indian Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari signed an agreement with the Soviet Union for a twelve-year $125 million loan, and last week West German Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard was on the verge of okaying $143 million in credits toward construction of a new steel plant in iron-rich Orissa. Other loans may come from Japan and the Colombo Plan nations...
Reports kept coming in from the launching site stating that the satellite would go up at a certain time. When the time came, word would arrive that the firing was further postponed. The count-down was finally ended at 9:25, but notification did not come until...
Chief actors on the show are Bil Baird and his marionettes Snarky and Gargle. Under Snarky's eager questioning and Gargle's perpetual doubting, Baird traces the history of mathematics from the days when the caveman could count only "one, two, one, two, and a heap.'' He describes the earliest numerals, explains the origin of the decimal system, shows how ancient merchants used their counting boards, stages a computation race with an abacus expert, tells about the discovery of zero." Now I heard every thing," grumbles Gargle. "Zero- zero means nothin' Baird...
...shaken to the roots of its potted palms because Eloise and her downtrodden Nahnee are summoned to Paris by Mother for a holiday "to get roses in our cheeks." Somehow Eloise manages to cross the Atlantic ("Actually the pilot has nothing to do, so you can help him count the comets'') with 37 pieces of luggage, including two cans of kippers. Once in Paris, Eloise finds the possibilities unlimited, and her range may be gathered from this memorable confession: "I toujours tweak the Apollo Belvedere whenever I leave the Louvre...