Word: filles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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State police sealed off Grafton, Ill., at the confluence of the Illinois and Mississippi rivers, when most of the town was deluged. Downstream, the Mississippi boiled along at a rate of 13.5 million gallons per second, enough to fill all of New York City's daily water needs in a minute and a half...
...about another two decades. Beyond that time, foreign supplies of those fuels should be sufficient to meet all the world's needs until at least 2030. In addition, the U.S. has immense reserves of coal (which now accounts for only 18% of U.S. energy consumption) -enough, theoretically, to fill domestic needs for centuries...
...current by passing a stream of hot, ionized gas at high speed through a powerful magnetic field. MHD plants should be able to operate at nearly 50% efficiency. Unfortunately, the U.S. is leaving almost all research and development in MHD to the Russians, who figure that it will eventually fill 10% of their electrical needs...
Only in America could you fill The Golden Bowl with seltzer and sell it. Few writers have had the talent and self-awareness to exploit such a cultural aberration as well as Roth. He fizzed onto the scene in 1959 with the award-winning Goodbye, Columbus, a novella whose tartness and clarity showed precisely what it was like to be a young Jew from Newark, N.J., ashamed of his lower-middle-class background and humiliated by the pretensions of the suburban newly rich. There followed two grim and carefully worked novels in which Roth misplaced his fresh, astringent tone. Letting...
...deanship cited in the report most likely refers to a Radcliffe post being created this year. A woman is expected to fill this post...