Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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All these complaints regarding the admission of minorities to American medical schools [Sept. 26], unjustly excluding white students with higher academic standards are absurd. I am an American studying medicine in Italy, and I was denied admission at home because of the enormous number of applicants.
Jimmy Carter walked over to a shelf in the White House last week and took down a plastic model of lethal U.S. and Soviet missiles; the Russian rockets were painted a sinister dark gray, the American ones good-guy white. Built to scale, the gray weapons dwarfed the white missiles...
The stakes are enormous. When Ball took over management of the estate at Alfred's death 42 years ago, it was worth $27 million after taxes. Today it is estimated at more than $2 billion. The mainstay of the estate is its rich stock portfolio, which includes 1.1 million...
For those who are already under treatment, like Jeanette Williams, the machine is an enormous convenience. Says her husband Eric, 74: "It's easy to use, easy to read, and we have confidence in it." -
From her retreat on the edge of Washington State's Puget Sound-"one room, one enormous window, one cat, one spider, and one person"-Dillard gazes out at nature and sees beyond the molecular realities ("Each thing in the world is moving, cell by cell") and even beyond Emerson...