Word: eighteens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personnel at the Smithsonian. It was typical of a number of important finds; for many of IGY's most distinguished and valuable contributions have come from scientists not working under the Geophysical Year grants from the National Science Foundation. The whole concept of setting aside a year or eighteen months for special cooperation in the sundry fields of science was so broad a project that it touched people whose whole lives have been dedicated to research in specific areas--oceanography, meteor study, or sunspot work, for example...
According to a random survey conducted by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, 52.9 per cent of scholars polled picked their institution "because it was a good college." Eighteen per cent selected a college." Close to home," and 16.5 per cent chose one "recommended by friends...
...tentative date for the completion of the building is eighteen months to two years, Trottenberg said. In the interim period Smithsonian scientists will probably occupy quarters at the IBM building on Cambridge Street, one spokesman said...
...Eighteen years, a war, a police action, and 12½ million men after Secretary of War Henry Stimson pulled No. 158 out of the jar, young U.S. men are still being drafted into the armed forces-and the draft remains a subject for controversy. Last week, with selective service scheduled to expire June 30, Defense Secretary Neil McElroy moved against simmering congressional end-the-draft sentiment, asked for a four-year extension...
This note by the 19-year-old Vincent van Gogh, then a salesman in Goupil's art gallery in The Hague, to his younger brother Theo, 15, began the greatest correspondence in the history of art. Eighteen years and hundreds of letters later, it was to end with the letter found in Vincent's pocket after he had fatally shot himself with a revolver: "Well, the truth is, we can only make our pictures speak. But yet, my dear brother . . . I tell you again that I shall always consider you to be something more than a simple dealer...