Word: number
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many visitors to the exhibition liked best a number of ice-cold, clear abstractions of streets and buildings by 37-year-old Francis Criss, rejected for Williamsburg because out of key with allotted color schemes. Approved were smooth murals...
...fringe of medical research are a number of doctors who sometimes make strange, wonderful and unexplained cures. One such is Dr. Burr Ferguson of Birmingham. Ala., who claims to cure practically every known disease by injections of diluted hydrochloric acid. In some cases he succeeds. He thinks his treatment works because the hydrochloric acid stimulates the production of white blood cells which destroy germs and help to heal wounds. Medical scholars pay no attention to him or his medication. On the other hand, many country doctors believe in Dr. Ferguson and use diluted hydrochloric acid (now widely sold in sterile...
...half-hour afternoon broadcast over WPG (Atlantic City). Presenting riddles at five-minute intervals, the station pays $1 to the listener who is first to telephone the correct answer. Innumerable wise contestants were jumping the starting gun by dialing the first four digits of WPG's number, snapping the final digit as soon as they had the solution. Until the wires were cleared by mass attack on the fifth digit, that trick automatically put busy signals on the ten telephones with numbers beginning with the same four digits. Because of the oddities of the dial system, large numbers...
...embattled telephone company met the crisis by giving Easy Money number 5-5261 (only Atlantic City number assigned on the 5-5 series). The company thwarted gun-jumpers by making the connection on dialing the second...
...National Cathedral in Washington (TIME, Jan. 31). Last month, under Anglo-Catholic leadership, about one-fifth of the Episcopal ministry-1,400 priests-signed a statement disapproving open Communion. Last week, the church's Liberal Evangelicals, a group of 450 ministers who represent a much larger number, plumped solidly for giving Communion to baptized Christians "who come as guests to what is not 'Our Table' but the Table of the Lord...