Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ "The welfare state kills the instinct of self-preservation. There's nothing man has to fight for."
Only 800 could crowd into the great public hall in Tokyo where the lottery took place last week, but 28,000 on the outside were waiting to hear the results. The lottery was no ordinary one, and its prize was precious indeed. It offered nothing less than a place in...
Reason behind this unlikely procedure is the pest's fatal weakness: the female mates only once. If a female happens to mate with a sterile male, she will lay nothing but infertile eggs for the rest of her short (three weeks) life. The U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists concluded...
This advertisement, with the rare privilege of Page One prominence by the New York Times, got results. One was that a New Yorker now in his mid-70s wrote to the advertiser (the Radioactivity Center of M.I.T.) and told his story. About 30 years ago he was working as a...
Even his rival pros, who have cut down many a college star to size, speak of him with a respect that borders on awe. "He's the only player I know who can run faster sideways than he can straight ahead," says Pittsburgh's guard Dale Dodrill. Says...