Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American girl, Helen Belles, from Spencer, Ind.,* who met his father when she, recently widowed, had gone to Paris to study singing and he to study music. Young Harold won scholarships to Eton and Oxford, where he was secretary of the Oxford Union and hailed by the undergraduate paper as "quite the most polished orator in the union-perhaps just a little too polished...
...past four years Gold has been Chief Assistant to the Astronomer Royal of Great Britain, making important studies of cosmic rays. He entered astronomy less than ten years ago, for until then he had been studying the ear's ability to analyze sound waves by their frequency. His first paper in astronomy was "The Steady-State Theory of the Expanding Universe," in collaboration with H. Bondi...
...giving courses one at a time instead of four at a time, with each course aimed at a brief but complete immersion in the subject rather than an extended sporadic acquaintance with it. Hypothesize daily lectures for four weeks, followed by a final examination or, better, a final paper, with each course covering the same material as those now offered...
Franco's real need was hard cash to back his paper money, and last week it drove him to something unprecedented in his 20 years as dictator. He had some soft words for that arch villain of a hundred speeches, Soviet Russia. While Spaniards listened in astonishment, Franco declared: "Once Russia halts her persecutions, threats, and subversive actions toward other nations, there will be nothing against Russia as a nation or Russians as a people...
...discontent of Spanish workers, many of whom take two jobs and work 14 hours a day to eke out a living, exploded in a series of illegal strikes. Reluctantly, Franco granted wage raises that averaged about 40%, and paid for them by the dangerous expedient of printing extra paper money...