Word: datedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nenana lottery started in 1917, when railway workers got up a $600 pool, won by a man who guessed that the ice would break up at 11:30 a.m. on April 30, still a favorite date among pool guessers. Not since that first year, mourn citizens of Nenana, has anybody from the lottery's home town won a prize. But Nenana (pop. 350) runs the contest as a civic enterprise and rakes in some 40% of the total take every year without any help from luck. In the spring, just about every adult in town works for the lottery...
...Department limousine through Washington's morning traffic, Chauffeur Clarence Mason wheeled smartly up to the Porter Street house in the capital's Cleveland Park section. Mason's assignment: to pick up Deputy Defense Secretary Donald A. Quarles and deliver him to a 7:45 a.m. television date on Dave Garroway's Today show at the NBC studios. Ordinarily, punctual Don Quarles was on hand when his car rolled up; this time Mason settled down to wait. Then he noticed the morning newspaper still lying on the doorstep. Walking uncertainly into the quiet house, he found Donald...
This kind of article cannot be said to be typical of the Soviet press treatment of the exchange program to date. At least some of the accounts which I have seen in Soviet publications have been quite devoid of the bias shown in this...
...Army library in Shannon Hall, the Colonel hopes that the endowment funds will permit the collection to be constantly renewed with up-to-date books, particularly on problems of national security. At present, the library is small, but comprehensive. Its utility, however, is strongly dependent upon constant additions which can only come through a special endowment...
...find customers-often coming off second best. Many investors who once insisted on a Government bond are now happy to buy a Government-guaranteed mortgage. Not only is the interest rate higher than what the Government pays on bonds, but the investor does not have to wait until maturity date to get his money back...