Word: dearingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Where else could a reader find in one place that the most popular numbers on a roulette wheel are 17 and 29, that until the mid-19th century, many Swiss believed washing the feet weakened the eyes, or that the absentminded Voltaire once began a letter "My dear Hortense" and ended it "Farewell, my dear Adele"? Where else is it written that 22 of the 633 men aboard Lord Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar were Americans, that the Syrian general Nicator fainted at the sound of a flute, that the 1883 explosion of the Krakatoa volcano was the loudest sound...
...read the following, typed on Harvard Club stationery, with "From the Desk of Ivan Boesky" emblazoned across the top: "November 8, 1986. Dear Dean, I am writing the following pursuant with my duties as member of the Visiting Committee of the School of Public Health, which is charged with monitoring the quality of the teaching at the school. I have formulated a series of recommendations to improve the quality of your fine school...
...Ellen conceives of her story as a tribute to "my poor dear, dead dad," and that is pretty much what she provides. Billy Henshaw inherits sole responsibility for his young daughter after his wife and son die during the influenza epidemic that swept through Britain in World War I. "My dad always called himself not a pianist but a pianoplayer," Ellen recalls. "Pianoplayer gives you the idea of him and the instrument being like all one thing, jammed together." Billy makes his way by accompanying the silent films at a Manchester movie house during the mid-1920s. Unfortunately, he possesses...
...Some Chinese have members of their direct families living in Taiwan. How anybody can deny them the right to see their dear ones, I don't understand," Han said. When the communists under Mao Zedong gained control of China in 1949, the Nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-Shek took refuge on the nearby island of Taiwan...
...Dear Professor...