Word: givens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Formosa. This island stronghold, still under Chiang's firm control, was given up in advance as lost. (This write-off outraged military planners who believe that if Formosa is lost, the U.S. position in the Pacific will be drastically weakened...
...month) have maintained a steady 50-50 average between Jews and non-Jews. Mrs. Berg likes to recall the time the Mother Superior of a Philadelphia convent wrote to ask for a synopsis of six weeks' programs. "She said the nuns were regular listeners but they'd given up the Goldbergs for Lent and now they were wondering what had happened...
Last week, with its big show drawing to a close, things were looking up for Tournai's present-day artists and craftsmen. The Belgian government had given Tournai tapestrymakers a 3,500,000-franc order, a new ceramics industry was being planned, the bell foundry was negotiating for a couple of big U.S. orders...
...conference also heard Frederick Mosteller, lecturer on Mechanical Statistics, predict that new Large-scale Digital Calculating machinery may soon enable scientists to predict mathematically the chances of success of a given marriage or the degree of readjustment to the community that a given parolee will make when he is released from prison...
...situation in which the new device could have been of great service. If the necessary information had been available, he said, one could have determined the rates of surplus imports of various commodities which would have been required to raise the domestic output of Marshall Plan countries from given original levels to prescribed higher levels over a stated period of time...