Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is not true. "The Serfs of St. Gregory," one dozen lay Catholics, were not silenced. We will not even be quiet until his Excellency forsakes his role of strikebreaker...
...when tourists roam our neighborhood all night looking for trouble ! As a matter of fact, the neighborhood you have libeled is like any other downtown dis trict in a large city- it has plenty of bar rooms, gambling houses and houses of assigna tion. But it also includes a dozen quite respectable hotels, the Glide Memorial Church (Southern Methodist), the B'nai Brith Hall, the very newest and swankiest dance-spot in the city (featuring people like Gene Krupa and Buddy Rogers), the headquarters of a large proportion of the city's labor unions, both...
...Damaso Court, near dusk, a bell clanged. Swiss Guards with flickering torches bustled through the corridors of the Vatican, looking for unauthorized intruders. "Extra Omnes!" cried a dozen masters of ceremonies-"Everybody out!" The heavy bronze door of San Damaso creaked shut. Six keys clicked in its locks, three on the inside turned by the Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, three on the outside by Prince-Marshal Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere. The papal flag was hauled down, the silken banner of the Chigi family hoisted in its stead. The conclave of 62 Princes of the Church, immured...
...about an atomic explosion which took place in a Berlin laboratory-the most violent atomic explosion ever accomplished by human agency (TIME, Feb. 6). This news, known then only to a few insiders, streaked over the physical world like a meteor. By last week a half-dozen leading science journals were popping with reports confirming, extending or interpreting the original phenomenon...
...colleagues decided that if the study of human relations was to become a science, they should, like other scientists, find a hypothesis to unify their research, test it, eventually reduce it to mathematical formulae. Thereupon they formulated a tentative theory with 14 definitions, eight postulates and about a dozen theorems. This theory was based on Sigmund Freud's frustration-aggression hypothesis, i.e., whenever an individual's natural impulses are frustrated, he commits acts of aggression against the frustrater, against others or against himself; aggression always indicates frustration. The Institute's scientists proceeded to apply this theory...