Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rigorous cost accounting in advance. Nor, for that matter, has exploration of any sort. But if we have learned one lesson, it is that research and exploration have a remarkable way of paying off -quite apart from the fact that they demonstrate that man is alive and insatiably curious. And we all feel richer for knowing what explorers and scientists have learned about the universe...
Lesson No. 2. Linda parried as best she could, sarcastically yawned that "all this is very curious, very original. I'm only sorry I missed it all. I was fast asleep." The go-home campaign was unnecessary anyway, she added: "I am only here because another man has my passport...
...court order ended a curious game of hide-and-seek in which Prestes was often pursued but never quite caught- perhaps because of the 600,000 votes that he and his followers reportedly control. He was seen at times disappearing over the Bolivian border, leaving for Moscow, or holed up in Sao Paulo running a strike. His manifestoes appeared in the 40 newspapers and magazines that Brazil's Communists put out despite the party's technically illegal status...
...trigger device, dug a 20-ft. crater in the backyard of the asbestos-shingle home of Railroad Conductor Walter ("Bill") Gregg, 37, cut and bruised Gregg, his wife, his three children and his niece, damaged seven buildings, killed one hen and probably vaporized a dozen more. Within minutes the curious began pouring toward the crater. Kids soon spotted jagged chunks of shiny metal, carted them home in paper bags until Air Force police moved...
...curious case faced the four members of the King's College matriculation board of Britain's University of Durham. The applicant before them had quit school at twelve-and he was now all of 68. Nonetheless, he wanted desperately to enter the university as an ordinary undergraduate. Had he been anyone less persuasive than ruddy-faced John McNair, the board might not even have bothered to consider...