Word: jars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kunin, one of the students, said that officials unintentionally forgot to mix the birthday capsules. "Because of this," he said, "individuals with birthdays to ward the beginning of the year were quite preferentially located" at the bottom of the lottery jar...
Kunin speculated that as officials added the birthday capsules to their pre-raffle container in monthly groups, they failed to shuffle them thoroughly. When they were poured into the lottery jar, they again were not shuffled. Thus, individuals whose birthdays fell toward the end of the year were more likely to receive a low number...
...drawing began at 8 p.m. at national draft headquarters in Washington. After a prayer, draft director Lewis B. Hershey ordered unlocked a black box containing 366 blue plastic capsules and had them poured into a large glass jar. Inside each capsule was a gummed paper printed with a date of the year...
...paralyzed, and a few unhappy chieftains even threatened to expel Prime Minister Indira Gandhi from the party. Even if a complete schism is somehow averted, which looks doubtful, the Congress Party already has lost much of its old unity. Dissension within the party is certain to jar India's volatile and increasingly fragmented political scene...
Gold ornaments believed to be earplugs, were found by David G. Mitten, James Loeb Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard, in a large burial jar which also contained a silver animal figurine and a copper dagger. The artifacts were uncovered to the north of the city, during an investigation of the remnants of a prehistoric civilization dating back...