Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anti-insurance group, in spite of the fact that they outvoted the progressives, three-to-one, could not lay clear claim to majority support. Members of the pro-insurance group felt that a number of doctors, who might have sent in mailed ballots voting for their side, did not vote at all because of a stipulation that the ballots must be delivered to the society's headquarters in person...
...scientists then tested "the urines [and serums] of a large number of patients with other types of malignant tumors . . . and in all instances abortion occurred...
...there was doubt of Artist Grosz's accomplishment in oil, the wiry strength, textural richness, clean color and solid finish of several still life and nude studies dispelled it. But the gaiety and sensuous life of these paintings made all the more striking a number of gruesome, garish or ruined landscapes and the latest, largest picture on view, A Piece of My World (see cut). This one harked back to the line drawings the artist made at 23, when he was a German pacifist who had been condemned to death but let off with front-line service...
...principle is that of cutting a light beam up into a certain number of sections per second, then measuring the length of one section. This is like clocking a freight train when you know the length of the cars. If the cars are 30 feet long and you see that two of them pass a given point every second, you know the speed is 60 feet per second...
...ahead in popularity is squash racquets. Its votaries have increased in number some 5,000% in the last decade. Now there are countless courts in most important U. S. cities, usually in clubs and hotels, but often in Y. M. C. A. and lodge buildings. Favorite short-order exercise for the not too tired business man, a half-hour of squash racquets, which everybody calls squash, is equivalent to three times as much straight lawn tennis. Ideal for winter exercise, it can be learned in six months, is low on breakage and not too strenuous for any active...