Word: nineteen
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Steve Williams '75-4 strutted into the Scrabble Players' Club in Brooklyn looking for a match. "I thought I was good. And besides, what could I lose at five cents a game?" he said yesterday. "Next thing I knew a Russian ace had ripped me off for nineteen bucks in four games...
Harold and Maude. A split-personality film. Half of Harold and Maude--to be specific, Harold--is very funny and wildly macabre; the other half-Maude--is maudlin and soppily sentimental. Harold is a nineteen-year-old morto-phile who gets his mother's attention by faking suicide, and Maude is an octogenarian whose "love of life" is on the level of Rod McKuen and Hallmark greeting cards. --Paul K. Rowe...
...feeling of outrage--his reaction betrayed the sure instinct of a public relations officer confronted with botulism in the vichyssoise. The first thing Charles Daly must have thought of when he stumbled on the Identimat machines was a grim features page in The New York Times: the irresistable headline, "Nineteen Eighty Four Arrives at Harvard," and the inevitable stark photograph of gaunt, sallow-faced summer school students fining up at the Union to be processed by the machine. In any case, Harvard's vice-presidents went into a quick huddle and came out reaffirming the sovereignity of our palm prints...
...Crimson again relied on its strong suit, the field events, for the bulk of its scoring. Despite the absence of two of its brightest stars, Blayne Heckel and Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace (both sidelined with leg injuries), the field corps picked up sixteen of the nineteen Crimson points...
Hypothetical situation: if a rich country has a four per cent rate of economic growth and a one per cent rate of population growth, per capita G.N.P. increases three per cent a year, nineteen times a century. But with the same economic growth rate and a two and half per cent rate of population growth, G.N.P. per capita rises in a poor country only one and a half per cent a year, or five times a century. The greater population growth in the poor country effectively eliminated its chances of catching up. And in the real world, of course, there...