Word: known
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...narcotics squad, second to the Federal Government's, to keep track of 23,000 known drug addicts and to head off the traffic to 15,000 additional users...
...moiety of which sum, a much better dwelling might have been purchased." But in spite of all the fuss, the British went through with the "great repair," just as they had done before and were to do time and time again. For more than 200 years the house, now known as No. 10 Downing Street, has been one of the most unsuitable and yet tenacious of all government buildings. It is a house with only a front door, and Commonwealth ministers sometimes arrive as tradesmen leave...
...Paume (literally, game of palm) was a royal indoor tennis court built by Napoleon III in 1862. The game, known as jeu de courte paume, derived from a sort of handball to which racquets were added, was for centuries the rage in France. In the 1890s the game lost popularity to English lawn tennis...
Viruses are known to cause many animal tumors, have been shown to be bafflingly versatile-both infectious and noninfectious in turn, depending upon a variety of complex technical factors. Stanley noted many oddities about viruses: man has coursing through his body many kinds that were unknown a few years ago; they can mutate to new strains that cause different disease symptoms...
Fighting dirt, dysentery and distrust, the salesmen are specialists in a unique investment operation known as Deltec S.A. Founded by a hard-driving Princetonian ('35), Clarence J. Dauphinot Jr., 44, Deltec has pioneered in raising investment capital in Brazil to develop new industries for the country and set a pattern that others are copying. Dauphinot, a onetime Wall Street foreign-bond trader, got interested in the project during trips to South America for Kidder, Peabody & Co. during World War II. He found that while Brazilian industry was starving for capital, money was stagnating in savings accounts and sewn...