Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...informs me of the news from the home town that he has gleaned from traveling El Pasoans in every part of the country. He never fails to inquire about every El Pasoan he has ever seen in Washington. I have gone into his side show tent in half a dozen different cities but he has never failed to spot me, no matter how big the crowd, and greet me by name. I have been informed repeatedly of his doing the same for all other El Paso acquaintances of his, many of whom he knew only casually. Some years...
...background. Diorama Corp. is proud of its historical and pictorial accuracy, has done much work for the Smithsonian Institution as well as for such firms as Ford and Sears Roebuck. Its President Edward Heckler Burdick conceived the idea of doing Christ in Gethsemane, to be followed by a half-dozen other Biblical scenes for possible exhibition at the New York World's Fair...
...tools commonly employed by novelists and amateur race track bettors: pencil, paper and imagination. One who wields these tools brilliantly is Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac of Cambridge University, who won a Nobel Prize in 1933 for his powerful contributions to atomic theory and who is one of the half-dozen greatest mathematical logicians in the world. In the U. S. last week arrived the British journal Nature with an article by Dr. Dirac which he began as follows...
Altogether 36 gases were used in the War, of which about half a dozen showed high efficiency. All these chemicals were known before the War. Phosgene, for example, was first made by British Chemist John Davy in 1812. Making gas into a war weapon was not a matter of finding new compounds but of manufacturing known compounds on a great scale. With their splendidly developed chemical industry, the Germans had the edge throughout and Allied gas warfare was largely a series of belated retaliations. In their March 1918 offensive against the British the Germans fired half a million "Yellow Cross...
When fillers were needed for the paper, Kipling wrote them: verse (Departmental Ditties) or prose (Plain Tales from the Hills). Other Indian papers began to buy his stuff; soon there were half a dozen paperbacked books signed Kipling on Indian railway bookstalls. By now Kipling had some money saved up. He turned his back on India and apprenticeship, returned to England to dip his fiery pen into the Thames. Almost immediately the Thames took fire. At 24 Kipling was the literary man of the hour. He cannily steered clear of cliques, ran foul of no colleagues. "I have never directly...