Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking at that perspective cutaway of the Noyes house, Roman atrium and all [May 20], I wondered if Architect Noyes realized that if things ever got congested in his Connecticut town he can always do as the Romans did, i.e., make a row of shops out of that row of bedrooms and get himself a few sesterces of rental income...
...Dividing the alphabet into rows of five, A-E F-J, etc.; thus, G is two taps followed by a pause and then two more taps (to indicate the second letter of the second row...
...price of clothing went down a bit, but just about everything else, from food to laundry soap, went up. And so that restless thermometer of inflation, the Bureau of Labor Statistics' retail price index, crept higher again in April. It was the eighth monthly rise in a row, bringing the index to a record high of 119.3 (the 1947-49 average = 100). The new mark was .4 above the March figure and a notable 4.7 above early 1956, when the index, after three steady years, started edging upward. Forecast for May: higher...
...French governments are condemned to the guillotine from the moment they are voted into power. French Premiers are like men in death row, continuously making appeals (votes of confidence), living from one reprieve to another, loudly proclaiming their innocence but secretly accepting the inevitable, wondering and worrying when the big knife will fall...
Neither letters nor numerals have yet been awarded for crew, as the heavies will complete their season on June 14 when they row against Yale on the Thames at New London. The crews left yesterday for two weeks of intensive training...