Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last-minute report to the President he declared that bids submitted for a dozen new cargo vessels were, so high that acceptance was out of the question. The bids averaged about $2,700,000 per ship, three times the cost in Britain. Since private shipping lines "simply cannot afford to build at these prices even with Government assistance," Mr. Kennedy explained, the only three practical alternatives were: 1) establishment of new shipyards; 2) allow building abroad when the domestic price was more than twice the foreign price; or 3) put the Government in the shipbuilding business, the "last resort...
...gathered in the little town of Brattleboro, Vt. to witness the ski-jumping championship of the U. S., the entry list looked like an Oslo telephone directory. Sprinkled among the Class A competitors were a few native Americans but the majority were Norwegians sojourning in the U. S. A dozen or so were topflight, but the performer the crowd had really come to see was Birger Ruud, the No. 1 product of Norway's extraordinary ski-training system...
Mathematician Edward Kasner, 59, of Columbia University, is one of the mythical baker's dozen of savants who were supposed to be the only men in the world able to understand the Einstein theory of relativity. At Harvard's Tercentenary celebration in 1936, he showed how to bisect a "horn angle" (an angle formed by two curves tangent to each other), a problem which had stumped mathematicians for 2,000-odd years. His fun: talking to children...
...their missionaries are remaining at their posts or moving to areas where they may be especially useful; 2) their chief problems involve transportation and maintaining medical relief stations: 3) tHeir future problem is the incalculable one of restoring wrecked establishments. For their emergency needs, at least half-a-dozen of the principal U. S. churches have launched money-raising campaigns...
Cried she: "I've got a lot of new axes -about a dozen of them-and I'm not going to quit until every machine is out of the city." In Alton's Methodist Church, lay men and churchmen held a mass meeting to raise funds for her defense. Oddly, none mentioned the real reason...