Word: myriad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many students joined the myriad throngs Christmas shopping in Boston and the Square yesterday. Stores have been staying open until 9 p.m. to handle the rush...
...myriad stop-lights installed to enable bloodless crossings at a half-dozen new cross-walks will remain. City and state engineers are continuing experiments to determine the best combinations and directions for the lights. Many of the flashing red and yellow markers have recently been changed to arrows, as a result of their investigations...
...short-run basis. Europe, partially due to war damage, partially to technical immaturity, can produce neither as cheaply nor as efficiently as the U.S. This means it cannot trade with us in a particularly equal give and take footing. But this situation is even further aggravated by the myriad trade barriers and currency controls still stretched onto the containment; these restrictions are actively preventing what Hoffman calls the "resumption of normal healthy trade...
...yearbook is scheduled to beat the final spring exams in publication, two editions of the book appearing simultaneously, one for undergraduates and another for seniors. The undergraduate edition of "314" is 250 pages of evaluation and documentation of the year in the Houses and the Yard, and in the myriad extracurricular activities, organizations and sports...
...apparatus will be ready to try on humans. The work of the heart can be done, and done well, by the pumping system; but he is not yet satisfied with the way it does the work of the lungs (putting fresh oxygen into the blood). The lungs' myriad air cells have an absorption area of about 600 sq. ft. A machine duplicating so large an area would be unwieldy. Dr. Gibbon must solve this problem before he can close off a human heart and operate on it while the blood flows through a mechanical bypass...