Word: furthers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A retired professor asked about Roman metal workers who wore face masks made from goats' bladders to protect themselves from dust and lead fumes (Roman Naturalist Pliny was the source). Three readers were baffled by the word glitch in one of our moon stories (it is a modernized term...
EVER since President Nixon announced last June that he planned to begin bringing U.S. troops home from Viet Nam, Washington has waited anxiously for some sign of a reciprocal move by Hanoi. In the U.S., Nixon's Viet Nam position rests heavily on some form of favorable response from...
A Big If. Surprisingly, Bernadette has achieved little rapport in the U.S. with the young or the New Left militants, or even with the mass of blacks with whose struggle Ulster's Catholics have strongly identified. Further, her emphasis on civil rights seems to have confused at least some...
Anything but Progress. Time, above all, is what Indira needs. For all her talk of socialism, she has offered few concrete plans, and her political victories of the past months have preserved her power at the price of further wrenching apart the Congress Party. Congress has ruled for 22 years...
The prime rate on loans to businesses by major banks remains at a record 8½%, but now bankers are talking of possible future cuts rather than further increases in the rate from which all other interest rates are calibrated. Gaylord Freeman, chairman of Chicago's First National Bank...