Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warning. Natural earthquakes, said Dr. Bullen, are not ideal as tools for earth study. Their waves often start from a large region, which makes them leave fuzzy records, like the shadows cast by a bonfire. Even worse, they give no warning, so seismologists have no time to start up the expensive, sensitive instruments they use when they want to record events of special interest...
...salary) through the spring of 1962, and perhaps 1964. will allow him to lead the Met from its old house into the promised land of Manhattan's huge new Center for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Square. While the Met directors were praising Bing's 1956-57 record (the house sold 94% of capacity all season long), Bing was in Germany, window-shopping for the latest fashions in opera houses. After clambering about the bobsled-shaped boxes of Cologne's stark new opera theater, plush-and-gilt partisan Bing said with a shudder: "The sacrifice you make...
...amazing boom in U.S. church membership, notably accelerated in the postwar years, is moving with unabated power. Last year major religious groups gained 3,000,000, a 3% increase for the year, swelling total enrollment to a record 103,224,954. Of every 100 Americans, 62 now claim affiliation, compared with 20 out of 100 a century ago. Latest membership figures, as published last week in the 1958 Yearbook of American Churches...
...Order. Whatever form the organizational change takes, the need for it is plain merely in the statistics of Jesuit growth and activity. Numbering 15,000 at the turn of the century, the Society of Jesus has since more than doubled in size, now stands at a record 33,732. Largest single contingent: the 8,156 Jesuits of the U.S. In various parts of the world, Jesuits...
Steelmakers got up out of their summer slowdown and pushed operations to 82.7% of capacity. For the rest of the year mills are expected to pour about 85% of capacity, may well crack 1955's alltime production record of 117 million tons. Said Iron Age: "The looked-for upturn in steel is under way, and will reach a peak in late November or early December...