Word: mite
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...June 1899 a letter arrived at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. "I am an enthusiast but not a crank," wrote a bicycle-shop owner from Dayton, Ohio. "I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then if possible add my mite to help." The letter was from Wilbur Wright, who, with his brother Orville, wanted to build an airplane. They began with kites and gliders, built their own wind tunnel and even recalculated long-accepted physics equations. Four years later on a blustery North Carolina beach, they succeeded where all others had failed. The longest flight...
...parts. Did he take responsibility for the false claim in his State of the Union message that Iraq had recently sought to buy uranium in Africa? And why were the allies having so much trouble finding other countries to help us in Iraq? The President--who seemed a mite tetchy, as he often does when things aren't going well--glowered: "I take the responsibility for making the decision...to put together a coalition to remove Saddam Hussein, because the intelligence...made a clear and compelling case [that Saddam] was a threat to security and peace...
...parts. Did he take responsibility for the false claim in his State of the Union message that Iraq had recently sought to buy uranium in Africa? And why were the allies having so much trouble finding other countries to help us in Iraq? The President - who seemed a mite tetchy, as he often does when things aren't going well - glowered: "I take the responsibility for making the decision...to put together a coalition to remove Saddam Hussein, because the intelligence...made a clear and compelling case [that Saddam] was a threat to security and peace...
...years. Those were benighted times, and it is not surprising that the military turned a blind eye on the College’s violation; after all, it also decided that HLS recruiting ban was kosher. But the recent reversal of that position demonstrates that the present administration is a mite more concerned about anti-military bias at elite universities than was its predecessor. If Rumsfeld wants to overcome the institutional rules through which that bias has become entrenched, he should not limit his gaze to the law school...
...used to light up individual office buildings and apartment blocks. Given Japan's nuclear safety record, that can only be considered a very hot appliance. TINY TAURUS Osaka University researchers have sculpted a plastic bull the size of a red blood cell, a laser technique that may lead to mite-sized machines. It's nice to see bullishness amid Japan's economic paralysis?even on a microscopic scale...