Word: list
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months only. The way things looked now, the Administration would be lucky to get an authorization for as much as $5 billion. And it could not expect to get final congressional approval of ERP until mid-May, at the earliest. Hearings on the bill would start immediately, but the list of witnesses was half a mile long...
...first year on U.S. records, Soviet Composer Aram Khachaturian (TIME, Nov. 10) got in the top 15 with his flashy Gayane Ballet Suite and his trashy Piano Concerto. Beethoven, usually voted a top favorite in most U.S. bull-session polls, made the list with two piano sonatas, the Moonlight and Pathétique, neither of which rates tops with highbrow critics. Pianist José Iturbi led the single record best-sellers with Debussy's Clair de Lune and a firm version of Chopin's much-mutilated A-Flat Polonaise...
...existing sciences-logic and mathematics-by one new science, mathematical logic. Because Whitehead felt that "conventional English is the twin sister to barren thought" and that words are coated with ambiguities, he developed a language of mathematical symbols to express logical truths. This kept the Principia off bestseller lists, but not off the St. John's list of the 100 Great Books...
...novice who doesn't consider a pair of skiis a worth-while investment, the youth hostels will provide slats in return for a very slight monetary reward, and, of course, the one unavoidable expense of all skiiers must figure in the debit list. An energetic man should count on spending at least $4 per day for tows and lifts...
...pecan free in Bixby, Oklahoma, won a clear-cut decision by a fall over 155-pound wrestler Sandy Jones on Tuesday, December 23, and succeeded in putting Chief Boston's sophomore ace on the injured list for the rest of the season...