Word: known
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sinking Spring home outside Reading, the telephone rang. Casting about for a fresh face for this year's political war, the G.O.P. steering committee had chosen his as the freshest. McGonigle accepted, then began beating across Pennsylvania in a tan Oldsmobile station wagon to make the face better known and to express outspoken views; e.g., he would, as governor, veto a right-to-work law; he would also probably have to raise taxes to meet increased costs and commitments...
...subject and rendering ought to tally. Yet this self-correcting effect does not always seem to operate. Tests have shown that a circle, viewed through an astigmatic lens, will be seen and reproduced as an ellipse; further evidence can be found in the practice and comments of various artists known to have been astigmatic or colorblind...
...missile tests at Cape Canaveral, thus present the U.S. Navy a legal opportunity to test antisubmarine hunter-killer techniques of sonar, radar, camera and what Navymen call "the Mark I eyeball" on real, live Red Star targets. Extent of U.S. submarine activity off Russia's shores: not known but presumably reciprocal...
Chits for Cash. While Magsaysay scrupulously refused to accept campaign contributions himself, Garcia let it be known that he would accept contributions personally-or they might be given to his wife, whose financial acumen and taste in jewelry are much admired in Manila. For a long while, permission to withdraw dollar reserves from the Central Bank was granted only when accompanied by chits initialed by Garcia. During his six-month campaign, the bank's dollar reserves dropped $90 million as a result of heavy but legal withdrawals...
Joint concerts with the Radcliffe Dance Group or the Choral Society enlivened the Orchestra's schedules primarily made up of lighter music by well-known composers. Occasionally, however, talented 'Cliffies took the spot-light when concertos were on the program...