Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fifteen minutes later he was asleep; and some how the alarm didn't ring until 10:15 the next morning...
...devices to electrocute roaches and rats. When he was 22, Edison landed in New York without a cent. He borrowed a dollar and got a job with a company that manufactured primitive stock tickers. As a repairman, Edison witnessed the 1869 Wall Street panic, when the "Erie Railroad Ring" tried to corner the nation's gold supply. As the crowd surged wildly about him-a prominent banker went mad and had to be restrained by five men-Edison shook hands with a colleague, commented later: "I felt happy because we were poor...
...entirely unexpected, opens up the forthcoming election for Council President. It had been assumed that Oliver would run again, and he had strong support within the Council. To date, no one has announced his candidacy, but this latest development will probably increase the number of hats in the ring...
...Academy* to plunge bright graduates into the heady whirl of Britain's ancient Oxford University. The Air Academy won its first scholarship, and there were a record five for West Pointt (matched only by Harvard). Recalls one awed civilian competitor, who stepped into the exam ring with them: "They looked like tall glasses of cold milk...
...complaints that Nikita Khrushchev has leveled against the West, one of the angriest is that the NATO nations are threatening the Iron Curtain countries with a ring of nuclear missile bases. Great Britain already has Thor bases, and Jupiter is on the way to Italy. Last week from Washington came reports that still another base for 1,000-mile IRBMs will soon be installed. The site: Turkey...