Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sketch is among a number of preliminary studies, all of which follow the outline of plans which University officials discussed with the MTA "some time...
...books. The temperature is kept constant, and the walls are fireproof. In fact the library is so carefully constructed that the only possible danger is that at some time a water pipe might leak and inundate the stacks. To guard against this remote possibility, the library has a number of leak detectors, protruding from the walls, and troughs beneath the pipes to catch any excess water...
Only five years ago, candidates spent most of every evening at 14 Plympton writing the news they had spent their afternoons gathering. The proportion of candidates finally elected was astonishingly small. A glance at today's masthead will show, however, that the number of editors has shrunk; and as a result opportunities for election are now greater than ever before...
...most vital parts of the program are the big concerted numbers, where brilliant lighting and costumes combine with the drumming and dancing to produce dazzling splashes of color. The other sections naturally act as relief; these generally take the form of lyrical African love songs, of calypso duets with guitars, hardly distinguishable from their Caribbean counterparts. The most interesting of these quiet interludes involves an African lute of liquid sound and astonishing facility called a "cora." The two cora soloists are undoubtedly virtuosos, and they draw from their instruments a phenomenal number of notes during their brief performances...
Lenin is supposed to have remarked that there could be any number of political parties in the Soviet Union but only on one condition: the Communist Party must be in power and all the other parties must be in jail...