Word: fours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hypocrisy in high places and evil deeds done in religion's name, he finally decided to devote his time and money to combating humanity's yearning to believe and worship. He spent five years writing a 725-page diatribe against Christianity, called Bible, Church and God. Four years ago he organized a few of his fellow thinkers into the "Secularists of New Jersey" (membership 150). Two years ago his group joined with other societies throughout the country to become the "United Secularists of America," with headquarters in Chicago...
Wreckage at Zero. The effect would be strongest at "zero": directly under the burst. The AEC's own building, a solid modern structure with four thick concrete floors, would be completely wrecked, and 80% of the people in the building would be immediate blast casualties; others would die later from radiation. Windows and partitions would be hurled about as missiles. More fragile buildings like the White House would be crushed like cardboard...
...Hudsons, but has a shorter wheelbase (119 in. v. the Super-Six's 124), a shorter hood, smaller engine (112 h.p., six-cylinder), and a lower ($240 to $265) price. It ranges from $1,675 f.o.b. Detroit for the three-passenger coupé to $1,795 for the four-door sedan...
...tree was a peacock which, when removed and placed on a table, strutted, turned its head, and folded and unfolded its fanlike emerald tail. The last Fabergé egg to be presented to the Czarina (in 1916) was prophetically grim: made of blackened steel and poised on four bits of shrapnel, it contained only a miniature painting of the Czar and Czarevitch Alexis with staff generals on the Eastern front. Two years later the imperial family was to be shot to death in a cellar at Ekaterinburg, and in four years Fabergé himself, possibly the last of the great...
With Battle Report: Victory in the Pacific, Captain Karig and his assistants have finished their five-volume stint. Like the other four, Victory moves at the brisk pace of journalism, seldom pauses for reflection or criticism. Its eyewitness reports of the Pacific slugging match are graphic, often moving; but except for interpolations of hindsight, Karig's history seldom rises above the work of the better on-the-spot reporters. Future historians will read this big job, done with loyalty and likable gusto, only for passing footnotes and occasional colorful quotations (one pilot's description of the night battle...