Word: letters
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Jane Yang, an 18-year-old high school senior from Saugus, said she could tell by the thickness of the letter in her mailbox that she had made...
Jane Yang, an 18-year-old high school senior from Saugus, said she could tell by the thickness of the letter in her mailbox that she had made...
...year-old monarch believed he was winning his battle against non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. His physicians believed as much when they sent him home. But a week after, the King began to grow weaker. He was working on a draft of a document that would rewrite Jordanian history--a letter replacing his 51-year-old brother Hassan as heir with his son Abdullah, 37. When doctors advised him to return to the U.S., Hussein quickly finished the letter, had it read on Jordanian television and flew to the Mayo Clinic...
...nebula was nearly a million light-years away, far beyond the bounds of the Milky Way. It's now known to be the full-fledged galaxy closest to our own in a universe that contains tens of billions of galaxies. "I do not know," Shapley wrote Hubble in a letter quoted by biographer Christianson, "whether I am sorry or glad to see this break in the nebular problem. Perhaps both." (Hubble was not entirely magnanimous in victory. To the end he insisted on using the term nebulae instead of Shapley's preferred galaxies...
...beauty of the living world I was trying to save," she wrote in a letter to a friend in 1962, "has always been uppermost in my mind--that, and anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done. I have felt bound by a solemn obligation to do what I could--if I didn't at least try I could never be happy again in nature. But now I can believe that I have at least helped a little. It would be unrealistic to believe one book could bring a complete change...