Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They say they will shoot me if you don't surrender...
Later, when Jesse became a superintendent, he found things less pleasant. Educationally, Kentucky was near the bottom of the nation's list ("Thank God for Arkansas," people used to say). The schools were often under the thumb of dictatorial trustees "who couldn't write their names, who would not know their own names if they had been printed on road signs...
...illustrate the machine's speed, scientists at the Computation Laboratory say that Mark III can multiply two 16 digit numbers together over 1000 times faster than a man can even write down the 32 figures to be multiplied...
This much the Union will say: that it is now giving "superclandestine lectures" to imprisoned Spanish workers...
...origins of Stanford are shrouded in myths which go back to the great railroad man and Senator Leland Stanford himself. The story goes that the Senator gathered a few of his millions together and with a generous heart and bulging bank roll, proceeded to Yale University. (Some stories say it was Harvard, others both Harvard and Yale.) That dignified institution turned down the "tainted" money, feeling that it could not build a university with money gouged from California formers by a railroad monopoly. "Very well, I'll found a university of my own," said the good Senator...