Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number of newspaper editorials have echoed the fine tribute paid to the postwar accomplishments of veterans in TIME'S article, "What Ever Happened to the Veterans." I would like to add my personal commendation. The article made all of us here at VA happy and proud of our daily service to these citizens who, as you say, have become "the main stream of U.S. life itself...
...Pleased Number. In Keele, England, 17 students at the University College of North Staffordshire got into a phone booth at the same time-one more than the record number claimed by students at Manchester...
...number can play Telephone Box Squash-the greater the number, in fact, the better. The first player gets into a telephone booth. Then another, then another, then another. In South Africa, 25 six-footers crammed in. Fortnight ago, 15 boys made it in Cambridge, and 19 squeezed in at Hatfield Technical College, near London. Then St. Mary's College in Moraga, Calif, claimed 22 ("the smallest guys on the campus''-see cut). For the benefit of Modesto (Calif.) Junior College, the telephone company got into the act. warily provided a booth that provided room...
...ancient islands and handsome buildings sink ever deeper into the waters of the lagoon, Venetians and their businesses have been migrating to the booming towns of Mestre and Porto Marghera on the mainland near by, while the population of Venice itself has dwindled to about the same number of citizens (170,000) as it held in 1500. To halt their city's decline, Venetian "progressives" propose to build a "little Manhattan" on an artificial island at the western end of Venice, well away from the famed Grand Canal. Among radical changes proposed: i) some buildings would be small skyscrapers...
...sprang up just a year ago. Though most members were sincerely concerned with the disarmament problem, a few joined with rather curious motives. When interest lagged, these clever fellows stepped into the "power vacum," played some unconstitutional tricks, brought in a flock of cronies, and elected one of their number as president. The name was promptly changed to the Committee Against Appeasement. During a student Council inquiry, however, the trickster resigned, and the group was left free to puruse its original purpose...