Word: pers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suddenly and die away slowly. Such "pulses" must be about two-thousandths of a second long. The pause between pulses must be timed to the natural swimming motions of the fish. Since little fish move their tails faster than big fish, the pulses must come closer together (about 20 per second) to catch little fish. A current with two pulses per second catches big ones...
Soap & DDT. By U.S. standards, Persia is an incredibly backward nation. Its population of 17,750,000 is riddled with disease (an estimated 5,000,000 cases of malaria annually and at least 7,000 cases of leprosy). Its infant death rate is estimated at more than 50 per 1,000 live births. Its schools are few and poor. Of some 125 million acres of potentially arable land, only one-tenth is farmed and that with primitive tools...
...lead paragraph of your October 14 editorial, entitled "The New Nazis," may have provided journalistic punch, but it also presented a distorted view of the Austrian League of Independents, which captured about 12 per cent of the votes in the recent Austrian elections...
This course has been followed by more than 50 per cent since it began...
...meeting the council made a regulation allowing proctors to take part in these games, and the following changes in Freshman touch football rules: 1) The number of plays per quarter is limited to 12. 2). No forward passing is allowed beyond the line of scrimmage. 3) The in-bounds line is ten yards from either sideline. 4) The ball must be passed by the center between his logs. 5) After a touchdown, the ball is put into play five yards from the goal line for the extra point, which may not be kicked. 6) No downfield blocking is allowed...