Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tigers also outhustled Harvard's first stringers, as practically every opponent has so far. The Crimson's superior skill usually outweighs this factor, but against Brown this Saturday everything will count...
...only sparingly. A lifetime of painter's discipline has not changed. After dinner, Picasso leaps up, announces: "Now I must work," and paints until 1 or 2 in the morning. And in his spare time he has just finished writing a play in Spanish entitled The Burial of Count Orgaz, based on El Greco's famous canvas. "Naturally," he says, "it is not quite a play, and it's not a question of a burial...
...demobilization center sans troops or trousers. The colonel (Peter Bayliss) doesn't notice, since he is a total Blimpcompoop. He does notice that the peanuts are missing at the officers' bar, and he raises unprintable hell. World regularly mocks British dead-face understatement about things that count v. British redneck rage over trifles. Bayliss does a kind of tonsillectomy of his part. He wheezes, bleeps, snorts, and plays endless comic tunes on his catarrh. He is like an animated poster propagandizing the inanity, silliness and stupidity of the military...
...woman and child in the country. The problem will grow as state and local governments are forced to spend much more on rapidly rising populations. Despite the recently lower birth rate, Dr. Philip M. Hauser, a University of Chicago population expert, reported last week that the U.S. can count on 65 million more Americans by 1985-an increase equal to the combined present populations of England and Scandinavia...
...Funk & Wagnall's, Webster's Third International). For another, the need for a new big dictionary definitely existed. Webster's was last updated five years ago; other dictionaries go as far back, unrevised though reissued, to 1913. For a third, Random House has dropped the word count of big dictionaries to 260,000 from an average of 400,000. Thus it may qualify as the first heavyweight dictionary truly designed for ordinary definition seekers. And beyond that, it is the first dictionary that has had Bennett Cerf, board chairman of Random House and senior constellation...