Word: ithe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hold the vertical windows in place. They are H-shaped in cross section, and Mies elaborately studied the dimensions of their outer edge for the shadow line it would cast on the enclosed windows and how it would relate to the whole 38-floor-high vertical scale. An added ith of an inch, translated into bronze, projected to the building's full height, and multiplied by all the mullions involved, might mean added thousands of dollars in construction costs. Mies was unintimidated. As one of his friends said recently, he insisted on simplicity, no matter what it cost...
...actor who was playing Clive Barnes in the early New York days was considerably different from the star who plays him now. In his first few months on the job, listeners to the Times radio station WQXR were astonished to hear a London lisp on the evening news: "Thith ith Cloive Bawneth, dawnthe cvitic of the New Yawk Timeth." A put-on, many decided. But the speech defect was real. The speaker, moreover, was as straight as a line of type. After shedding his first wife of ten years, Barnes married Patricia Winckley, a lithe balletomane who looked like...
...GJXXNGGOTZNUCOTWMOHYJTKTAMTXOB e in ea in ith...
...becomes possible to find familiar words in plain English. For example, the letters ith appear near the beginning. Guessing that this could stand for with, the analyst assumes that M = w. He tries that idea out in other places where M appears in the ciphertext. Down the line this produces the sequence with-n-nown. This suggests: with unknown, in which case J would equal u, and K would equal...
...thrifty Dutch are not about to spend their liquid gold recklessly. Shell and Esso have been shepherded into a shotgun marriage w?ith The Netherlands States Mines to market the gas. and De Pous. now-dubbed "The Sheik" by wags around The Hague, is laying down stringent marketing regulations. Present plans are to reserve about 25 billion cubic feet of it for "premium'' industrial use. including the fueling of projected new aluminum and ammonia plants, and to enable Dutch householders to convert to gas furnaces and stoves...