Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago, 32 big mines were operating; today there are nine. The number of working miners has dipped from 12,500 in 1950 to 5,000. Few other jobs are available. Harlan is all hill and hollow, and the hollows are too narrow for farming or factories...
...lucky $25 bond holder can win as much as $100,000 if his number comes up. If not he can cash it in on a graduated scale: from 50% of its face value after one year to 110% after...
...This appears to be an increasing problem," warn the doctors, "since twice the number were observed at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the decade 1948 to 1957 as in the preceding decade." But the worst may be yet to come. No one knows how many healthy people with histories of such treatment may later develop malignancies. The interval for the appearance of cancer after treatment ranged in the study from five to 55 years...
Even farther down the road is the ultimate dream in telephone service once described by Harold S. Osborne, former chief engineer of A. T. & T.: "Whenever a baby is born anywhere in the world, he is given at birth a telephone number for life. As soon as he can talk, he is given a watchlike device with ten little buttons on one side and a screen on the other. When he wishes to talk with anyone in the world, he will pull out the device and punch on the keys the number. Then, turning the device over, he will hear...
Delmar Leighton '19, Master of Dudley House, agreed that "it will obviously be necessary to provide other facilities when Dudley House is torn down." The new center's location is "still in the area of speculation," he said, and the Lehman Hall idea is "just one of a number of possibilities...