Word: pense
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Artifacts. When police raided an elegantly furnished apartment outside Milan, they found papers, special inks and pens, lenses and other artifacts of the professional forger, as well as a man who admitted that the letters were fakes. This at last was too much for Publisher Rizzoli. Oggi discontinued the series...
When the steel pen was replacing the quill around 1800 A.D., the world thought it had chipped and scratched its way to some kind of penman's peak. But steel pens could be pushed no faster than 30 words a minute. By 1867, no less than 51 men had...
He helped plot the fabulous Long March, in which 30,000 Communists trekked 6,000 miles in 368 days to the northwest to escape Chiang's armies. One writer described him in those days: "His chin veiled by a black beard, Chou would ride a bristle-maned Mongolian pony...
But Dr. Sweet had worked with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Physicist Gordon Brownell to develop a scanning machine that shows, with a high degree of accuracy, not only whether a brain tumor is present but, if so, precisely where it is. Dr. Sweet gave Holly an injection...
House Speaker Joe Martin last fortnight hinted at what was in the works. He an nounced that he favored cutting to 10% most excise taxes now above that level, e.g., the 20% tax on theater admissions, furs, jewelry, purses, the 25% tax on long distance telephone calls, the 15% levy...