Word: number
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without the use of guinea pigs, or without any resort to actuarial tables, my friend figured through a simple calculation of the number of drinks that he has had, that, according to the estimates of Dr. Arthur Hunter (that every drink costs the moderate drinker 25 minutes of life), there has been a grave error in that his birth should not have been recorded before Jan. 19, 1954. In other words, he is at the present time minus 14 years and 7 months old, and steadily going backward...
...Five million kulaks were uprooted, their property confiscated, an unknown number exiled...
...Manhattan's Pierre Matisse Gallery, critics and gallery-goers gravely inspected a number of gangling contraptions. Made up of string, wire, metal rods, colored wooden balls, sheet metal, the objects delicately bobbled, jiggled, woggled, teetered and tottered on their moorings. Some were powered by tiny electric motors, others needed a gentle push to set them going. These were "Mobiles." There were also "Stabiles"-a fantastic, animal-like limb from a tree; and the William Paley Radio Trophy of stainless steel cones surmounted by wires. These stayed perfectly still. Motionless or jiggly, they were all creations of Alexander ("Sandy") Calder...
...Author Edgar Rice Burroughs issued an ultimatum to all wrestlers, boxers, strongmen, footballers calling themselves Tarzan: " 'Tarzan' is a copyrighted trademark and if these plug-uglies insist upon using it, I'm going to insist on the right to license them and stencil the copyright number on their chests...
...report on the languages studied by the city's high-school youth. Overwhelming favorite (107,000 students): French. Second (41,400): Spanish. Well down on the list (16,500) but gaining fast: Italian. Most spectacular trend: a five-year drop (since Hitler) of 35% in the number studying German (now 16,900). At the present rate of decline, Dr. Huebener feared, German will soon approach its 1918 unpopularity, when only 40 New York City pupils studied...