Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often advised the national Administration on foreign affairs. Since 1953, he has been a member of the National Security Council planning board, and served as assistant director of the Office of Defense Mobilization from 1951 to 1953. Since the war, he has been on the staffs of a number of House committees on foreign aid and affairs...
...This spring, Cambridge University students announced that 15 of their number had squeezed into one phone booth. Students in South Africa then pushed the number up to 25. Not to be outdone by foreigners, 32 students at Modesto Junior College, California, claimed to have crammed themselves into one booth. And, the following week, the Oklahoma City University chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha managed to jam 33 of its fraternity brothers into one booth before 1500 cheering witnesses...
...Still, the fact remains that 1500 people and a large number of cameras did witness the accomplishment of the feat. But this should not upset us too much. Remember that Gerald Heard, in his brilliant book Is Another World Watching?, proved conclusively that flying saucers are manned by insects. Remember too that scientists have again and again proven that the bumblebee cannot fly; "eppur' si muove" ("and still it moves"), as Galileo reputedly said in another connection...
Although each of the states was represented last year, three are missing this summer, and Alaska and Hawaii have students attending. After a surprising jump last year, the number of Massachusetts residents attending the school dropped slightly. The Middle Atlantic states--New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania--increased their representation...
...number of foreign students again was raised, to 305, or 8 per cent of the total enrollment, a high for recent years...