Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Messenger Service will operate from 1 to 11 P.M. every day. Callers and telephone messages are received at the Message Center, Grays 2, and the students are notified immediately by messenger. The phone number for student calls is KIrkland 7-7600, extensions...
...astonishing number of congressional Republicans were openly delighted to see Adams squirm. Some had been offended when he left them dangling at the other end of a dead telephone. Some resented the fact that he had pursued the President's dictum that the White House should work with Congress through the leadership; they felt that as a result, Adams had locked them out of the White House. Then there were the old-line Taft-men. "That sonofabitch," said one bitterly. "He was one of those who went down to Texas and planted that flag-'Thou Shalt Not Steal...
Even more surprising was the number of rank-and-file party workers-already in real trouble fighting the Democratic tide, already aware that Ike is of little value in local elections-who are appalled at the thought of the Administration's being a deadweight. Only four G.O.P. Senators, Vermont's George Aiken and Ralph Flanders, New York's Jacob Javits, Kansas' Frank Carlson, supported the President's stand on Adams-and they are not candidates...
...confused with North America's ovenbird. Sciurus aurocapillus (a warbler). South American ovenbirds number scores of species, belong to a distinct family akin to ant birds and flycatchers...
...spelled propylaeum as "pro-pileum." Confidently, just as if she knew that the word means a vestibule or entrance, Jolitta spelled it correctly, then topped it off with syllepsis (the use of a word to modify two or more others, only one of which it agrees with in gender, number, etc.). Prize for Terry Madeira, an eighth-grader at Elizabethtown (Pa.) Junior High School: $500. For Jolitta. an eighth-grader at Harmony Rural School in McPherson, Kans., who studies spelling with her schoolteacher mother, plans to become a missionary, use most of the money for her education...