Word: finding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took us 15 years of living there to find out . . . Miles of beaches, hundreds of klieg lights, cases of suntan lotion . . . and avocados in the front yard...
...Government's guaranteed price for uranium oxide (U2O4) in sufficient concentration is $3.50 a lb. The AEC also pays a $10,000 bonus for a really good find...
...rafer. Explained Amputator Astley-Cock: "It is a wise policy to recognize the universally valid principle of festina lente (hasten slowly). To abolish 'ph' at the beginning of words would mean to be out of line with the dictionary . . . Where, for instance, would a foreigner or student find 'fthisis' to learn that it meant tuberculosis...
...will use much of the stone himself in a Philadelphia housing project that he is building as a sideline to his auto business. The rest, he figures, will find an easy market: the Italian stone is far less expensive than U.S. cinder block...
...prices. But one retailer made the mistake of letting the apparel trade's Daily News Record in on the secret. News services spotted the trade-paper item and spread the good news to bargain-hungry U.S. consumers. Result: Goodall's retailers could no longer find anyone foolish enough to pay $27.50 for a Palm Beach, had to put the new low price into effect right away at little more than they paid for them...