Word: parts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before any real and lasting benefits for humans can be realized in this field, Krieg warns, man must first enlarge the horizons of his knowledge of the brain itself, until he knows exactly what part each tiny area plays in motor activity or sensory perception. After that, some of the great possibilities might become a reality for the lame, the deaf and the blind...
...hike in the official U.S. gold price, went the argument, would give gold-holding nations a windfall profit to ease their dollar deficits. On its part, the U.S. could use the paper profit from its $24.5 billion gold hoard for loans to other nations...
...Gold Standard. Devaluation of the dollar, however, is only one part of the broad and complex question of gold...
...money in such jobs, sometimes there isn't. But I'd rather break even on a monumental building than make a million on an uninspired warehouse." Nevertheless, McShain did well enough to buy the 600-room Barclay Hotel on Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square, to become part owner of the 400-room Claridge Hotel in Atlantic City, and co-owner and president of the Atlantic City Traction...
This time Bemelmans pops the cork in a village of the Tyrol, where he spent part of his boyhood. Out comes a bubbling mixture of beautiful spies who refuse to be seduced, mountaineers who outwit pockmarked Nazis, and emigrant sons who write home from America: "Chopping wood one day recently, I cut off my left thumb and the cat got it ... and ate it. I am now forced to stay idle. Send me some money...