Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...output of British industries was up 12% over 1947, although the number of workers had increased only 2%. This meant that the individual British worker worked harder and more efficiently. The most striking success was achieved by Britain's steel industry, still free-enterprising, which produced nearly 15 million ingot tons, substantially bettering the target set by government planners the year before. This was more steel than Britain had ever produced in any one year...
...exset number of tables will be in proportion to the pinball machines that can be squeezed in around the wall space. These will be in addition to cigarette vendors and soda coolers. The whole business will be kept open until midnight, six hours later than the similar emporium located above Leavitt and Peirce...
Armed with a hot tip on number 2 and unable to watch from any place but the far turn, the two saw the horses toddic by into the stretch. They heard the following jockey repartee as the beasts passed by. "Hey, where's number 2? Let him through, let him through...
...game, as far as the attack man is concerned, is to gain a stop on the man guarding him, by any one of a number of crafty maneuvers. Foremost of the offensive arts is "dodging," (see cut left) in which the man with the ball fakes his defender off balance and then spins past him. There are also a number of "brush plays" where one of more attackers stage a traffic jam which prevents the defenseman from keeping up with the ball carrier...
...fruitful sources of Harvard men are in the East. Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Connecticut send almost 400 or 500 men between them, and the admissions office also draws upon Ohio, California, and Illinois for a similar number of future alumni...