Word: fragment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Haven, Conn., antiquarian bookseller named Laurence Witten purchased the map, which had been bound with a 13th century narrative of a Central Asian voyage, from a European dealer in 1957. Later Witten was given a fragment of a medieval encyclopedia that appeared to be written in the same hand as the narrative. Wormholes for all three documents-map, fragment and narrative-matched perfectly. Convinced of the map's authenticity, Witten in 1959 sold all three, reportedly for nearly $ 1 million, to an anonymous buyer, who in turn donated them to Yale. There, scholars determined that the map had been...
...that the 18-minute section of tape "probably contained speech originally." The evidence for this is that the scientists found three tiny "windows" on the tape?minute sections in which the buzz did not appear. Although undetectable by an untrained ear, they found in each of the windows "a fragment of speechlike sound lasting less than one second." These sections apparently were missed by the erase head in the multiple manipulations of whoever tampered with the tape. Bolt explained that the assumption that speech underlies the entire buzz is basically "a statistical argument." There are only three breaks...
Worker's Newsreel Number 12 is a 10-minute fragment about the National Hunger March in late 1932. The Ford Massacre shows the results of an actual Detroit strike earlier the same year, while Millions of Us is a 20-minute staged story about strikes...
...sure way to fragment America further is to continue to supply Israel militarily. In this case our interests clearly lie with both Arab and Jew. We and the Russians must see to it that neither side comes out of the present fighting with the idea that it is superior. If the U.S. and Russia can live feeling equal, the Israelis can learn to live without their territory-grabbing tactics and the Arabs without their guerrilla terrorism...
Difficult Decision. The fourth day of the fighting was the worst, according to Halevy, who was later wounded when a shell fragment struck him in the neck. "We had little air support that day. The Egyptians attacked by the thousands. We let them climb up toward us, and when they were really close we smacked them with everything we had. Next day we captured two Egyptian soldiers. One told us that he had been in the Sinai before the war broke out, preparing an ambush of antitank missiles...