Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late fall of 1953, with the statute still there but a new president in the chair, indications are that the last remnants of this Puritanical crust, have disappeared from all but the record books and that the theater is at last about to emerge as a respected and vital part of University life...
...order such a meal, a customer has to have more crust than a Bowery mission pie. But some of the owners and waiters have worked out a defensive "treatment" for such diners. As soon as they hear the odious order, waiters snatch the tablecloth from the table and the napkin from the diner's lap. The table is set with chipped crockery and kitchen silverware. Then, aiming at the kitchen and rearing back, a waiter bellows at the top of his voice: "Menú econímico for one!" That attracts the attention of everyone in the dining room...
...worldwide shortage by the end of the century. Coal, on the other hand, sometimes regarded as a dying industry, is in for a big boost in the coming decades. Say the authors: "The use of fuels extracted in liquid and gaseous form from the earth's crust will probably . . . approach its completion by the end of this century. The era of coal, which began 150 years earlier, is likely to continue longer and leave a deeper impact on mankind...
Comparative Ages. The age of the earth can be estimated in several ways. It loses heat to space, but it also gains heat from the decay of radioactive materials. By balancing the estimated losses against the gains, scientists have concluded that the earth's crust needed two to four billion years to reach its present temperature. The age of the crust can also be estimated by measuring the products of radioactive decay that are found in its oldest rocks. This figure comes out to about three billion years...
...quietly resigned to his own mediocrity. Charles Anderson has the rank of a first secretary in the British Foreign Service and the fate of an also-ran in life. He is a bit stuffy, oldfashioned, well-liked, fond of making mildly witty remarks and coated with "a thin crust of mannerism." At the beginning of Chapter Two comes the flashback. Charles is seen as a boy, at Brookfield, where his master is the original Mr. Chips, called back for a brief return engagement. Author Hilton leads Charles through the pangs of first love with a girl whose cockney accent...