Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question was as complex as India's linguistic makeup. Its solution was basic to the building of a modern cohesive state out of disparate parts. The nation of Gandhi and Nehru has no majority tongue. Some 41% of its people speak Hindi. Another 14% speak Marathi, Gujarati, Kashmiri and Punjabi-all closely related to Hindi. Some 32% speak Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Oriya, Malayalam, Kannada and Assamese. The remaining 13% speak miscellaneous dialects...
...young lieutenant had other ideas. "The oath I took when I graduated as an officer," he declared, "binds me to the duty of defending my flag and nation according to the principles of the constitution." Then he sent a telegram: "Dear Father, with pain I have declined the opportunity to join you, requesting instead return to the post of duty to which I am bound according to the principles of personal and military dignity you taught me. Your loving son, Froilan...
...need him right now." The rest of the team was clicking. Coaltown, whose efforts included a world-record mile-in 1:34-had the handicap division over a barrel; Kentucky Derby-winning Ponder, runaway victor in the recent $66,150 American Derby at Washington Park, was the nation's top money-winning three-year-old. If anybody mourned Citation's absence, it was the gloom-mongers who seemed to take morbid satisfaction in predicting that Citation was all washed up and would never race again...
...promising field is economics. Professor Wassily W. Leontief of Harvard explained that when economists try to figure out how the innumerable industries of a nation or continent affect one another, they run into a bramble-patch of interlaced figures. He hoped that the great calculators, by breaking this numerical barrier, might give nations a hint on how to keep their economies balanced...
...promising field is economics. Professor Wassily W. Leontief of Harvard explained that when economists try to figure out how the innumerable industries of a nation or continent affect one another, they run into a bramble-patch of interlaced figures. He hoped that the great calculators, by breaking this numerical barrier, might give nations a hint on how to keep their economies balanced...