Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a far smaller number of entrants than were expected, and considerably fewer than the number which competed in the House Championships two weeks ago. "It looks like the House tournament was the big one this year," commented Intramural Director Adolph W. Samborski...
TIME Atlantic is now three years old, but it has a prior history. Before the war a modest number of copies of our U.S. editions went by surface mail to various European heads of state, their ministers, U.S. embassies, and private citizens abroad who wanted the American viewpoint on the news of the world and news of America. When war closed most of the Continent to us, we continued to supply available subscribers by ship as best we could through the German blockade, and managed to fly a light-weight edition from New York to people like Winston Churchill...
...fledgling scientists chosen from high schools all over the U.S. in the Westinghouse Electric Corp.'s seven-year-old annual "Science Talent Search." To begin with, there had been 16,218 bright young juniors like Dwight, but successive screenings and aptitude tests soon cut the number down to 2,842, then to the 40 who got the trip to the capital...
...been temporarily cut in half. Explained Editor William Buckley on Page One: "The Editor's wife, who goes around picking up loose ends after the Editor, is a good eight months pregnant and the doctor says she must take things easy from here on out. That means the number of loose ends she picks up is considerably diminished ... If there is something you want in the paper, or if you know of some little tidbit that's newsy, drop us a line or call into the office...
...Orders of the Day." On arrival, each player filled out a detailed personal-history form and got a serial number. ("Pennsylvania," wrote one man in answer to the question "State of Health?") Each morning, after 7:30 a.m. reveille, there were fresh, mimeographed "orders of the day." Sample: 9:30-Unit A to batting cages 1 & 2; Unit B to pitcher's balk practice; Unit C to sliding pit practice. At the blast of a whistle, students shifted to the next class...