Word: numbering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...given dominion over the beasts of the earth. Man knows how the beasts reproduce. Because he knows better, man controls his own number of children, so he can have a family instead of a herd, a flock or a litter...
...second only to Genoa among Italian ports; today it is eighth. Trieste's maritime traffic has dropped 25% in the past two years, and rail traffic is less than half the 1957 rate. More than 17,000 Triestini (12% of the labor force) are unemployed, and the number of "disguised unemployed"-their livelihood provided by government make-work projects-is steadily increasing...
Laotian solidarity, he also practiced it. He had 25 wives (though only the Queen was called wife), and the number of his children was reckoned from the official 38 to a less official 100. Once, Novelist W. Somerset Maugham wrote about his royal neighbor on the Riviera: "Whenever the King is in his residence, which is a pretty villa next to mine, there always seem to be at least 70 people staying with him-all of them children...
...great distance from the earth, a faster system when it came nearer and its signals were easier to receive. The transmission was done by a sort of TV camera that scanned the pictures electronically, line by line, and translated their varying shades of brightness into varying radio signals. The number of lines could be changed to give different degrees of definition. The maximum was 1,000 lines a picture, which yields a definition about twice as fine as the normal TV picture...
...unique program, the School faces a number of dangers. First, the Conference could degenerate into a hollow shell, a well-organized outline. But this is unlikely, for students accepted into the program are well-qualified for the type and quantity of work required...