Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At the United Nations, 550 scientists from 49 nations bent their heads over the problems of the old earth. They saw the present 2 billion population increased to 3 billion by the year 2000. But they were plunged in no Malthusian gloom. They could see, on the contrary, a day...
Later Boyle reminisced: "We lived in a big, old-fashioned house, and I remember the Trumans used to come over and visit us on Sundays. What I remember best were the political picnics the party used to hold every summer at Lone jack, Mo., outside Kansas City. These were hell...
Presidential Priorities. It developed that John's old friend, Major General Harry Vaughan, the presidential military aide, had dashed off wads of letters on White House stationery to get John and his business associates transportation, visas, and help from U.S. officers abroad. Before one wartime perfume-buying trip just...
Red Sox. In Communist-controlled Shanghai, Buddhist monks of the Bubbling Well Temple, finding that revenues from religious services had fallen off, announced that they would begin making stockings.
"Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there...