Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vast majority of diverticula are found in its last 15 inches, known as the sigmoid colon be cause it bends in an S shape from the lower end of the descending colon to the upper part of the rectum. Most of the sigmoid colon is in the left lower quarter of the body. When a diverticulum becomes inflamed (diverticulitis), the symptoms suggest "left-sided appendicitis." Symptoms usually include diarrhea, gas distension and pain...
White officials presented Briton Pirie with a plaque to mark his visit. Brusquely Pirie turned and handed it over to Muleya. Said Negro Leader Stanlake Samkange: "Muleya did more for good race relations in under a quarter of an hour than hundreds of twittering interracialists have achieved in the last five years." Even Bill DuBois was chastened. Said he ruefully: "It was a great race. The day of multiracial athletics is here, I'm afraid...
...Industrial spending on new plants and equipment began to turn up, said the Commerce Department, but new plant expenditures for the third and fourth quarters will be a little less than expected, will pick up only about 2% in the first quarter...
Ford Motor Co. is making a strong comeback. Fourth-quarter profits will be so fat that they will wipe out a nine-month loss of $16.2 million, put the company well into the black...
...imposed silence. During the Stalinist purges, Pasternak turned to translating Shakespeare, Goethe, Shelley-the only work of his by which he is known to a wide Russian public. Save for two wartime books of poetry, no volume of Pasternak's has been published in Russia for a quarter-century, although handwritten copies are privately circulated...