Word: myriad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...urge to spend is satisfied in myriad and wonderful ways. Because women have plenty of money to go to beauty parlors, sales of Gillette's Toni Home Permanents have fallen off-but Gillette gamely considers the trend good news for the economy as a whole. At Los Angeles' May Co. department stores, a $200,000 collection of primitive art from New Guinea is selling like sunglasses at $3 to $3,000 apiece. There is a boom in book and encyclopedia sales, and the cosmetics industry is lifting its face this year toward $2 billion in sales...
...toward our research in general. Therefore, I am taking this opportunity to bring to the attention of you and the members of the Corporation some of the cogent matters associated with our work. By this means, I hope to prevent the broader issues from being totally submerged beneath the myriad lesser decisions (e.g., my contract) which have to date constituted Harvard's official "position" and expressed concern...
Clarke might well have limited himself to space flight; instead he has chosen to discuss possible developments in a myriad of scientific fields. One reason the book is so interesting is its scope, and any scientist reading it must acknowledge the author's skill as a science popularizer. His predictions are filled with easy but remarkably correct explanations of current work in various fields. In simplifying essential concepts, he consistently avoids that major pitfall of the popularizer, losing the basic meaning of the concepts to the field. Were he any simpler, he would be inaccurate; if he were more technical...
...short stories collected in The Cape Cod Lighter demonstrate O'Hara's perception of the hypocracies and paradoxes of our civilization. In the land of the free, the individual is trapped. Each story broadens our understanding of our lives by reminding us of the myriad restrictive pressures which confine us: sex, society, manners, ambition, obligation, capitalism, habit...
...made so many observations and radioed its reports to earth with such singular success marks the most important accomplishment in the annals of space exploration. It is a proud first for the U.S. No achievement by Russian cosmonaut or U.S. astronaut, no experiment made by any of the myriad other satellites that have been shot aloft has taught man nearly so much as he has learned already from the improbable voyage of Mariner...