Word: kilo
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...Overjoyed, we received news a short while ago--that again you have in the true sense of friendship--without many words--rendered us help," wrote students of the University of Vienna. It was sufficient to give each one of our members one Kilo (about two pounds) of sugar, an amount almost unimaginable for anybody today...
...hundreds of years, Paris' chiffoniers (rag pickers) had shuffled about quietly in the half-light before dawn, pawing through potato peels and rotten meat in their quest for a handful of old rags or an empty tin can. (Their .reward: for a kilo of rags, 4 francs; for a kilo of iron, half a franc...
...applaud the innovation in British recording engineering (Crimson, Sept. 25) extending the upper limit of recording frequencies to "14,000 kilo-cycles." We congratulate, you on your use of the words "hush-hush" in this connection, since the upper limit of human hearing is generally conceded to be roughly 20 kilocycles...
Unrest. May Day in Vienna saw 200,000 Socialists and a mere 20,000 Communists in rival parades. But the lack of animosity between them was notable. Said a Socialist: "Give us a kilo of fat and you'd see the marching...
...inch slice of Spam (for four people), obtained God knows where, and, through the generosity of an Allied soldier, a couple of ounces of spread-on meat. Unappetizing black bread, ungarnished even by margarine, completed not only the course, but the dinner. Coffee (2,000 francs a kilo in the black market) was not for folks whose Government-controlled monetary allotment was limited to 2,000 francs a month for all purposes...