Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Later they would undertake pregnancy as a countertest, get full medical treatment if sterility developed. How to find such remarkable people? Wright saw the way after newspaper stories drew 80 Birmingham couples for a similar test financed by one Captain Oliver Bird, 78, of Bird's Custard. Wright sent a carefully worded ad to the London Daily Telegraph, which rejected it with a pun: "The conception is distasteful to us." With little hope, he tried the Times, which unexpectedly accepted the ad and netted 20 replies. Tabloids quickly spotted it, published stories that netted 100 more volunteer couples...
Whiffing a good thing, Upjohn sent scouts to the Big Cypress Reservation near Immokalee, found a tranquil oldster (74) who still hunts, fishes and farms all day without tiring. Billie was free to talk commerce, it developed, because he got religion 14 years ago and quit practice to become a Baptist minister. Last month Upjohn flew Billie in a private plane to Kalamazoo, there besought him (with a new hearing aid and a little cash) to demonstrate his lore...
...been assembled in Europe only twice before in this century. Spread out before them are more than 250 objects covering the whole richness of Byzantine art, from its glowing mosaics to its small ivories, enamels, rich metal work and superb icons (religious images). Rarest dish: a host of icons sent abroad for the first time from great collections in Turkey, Yugoslavia and the U.S.S.R. The total effect is a reminder that for more than a thousand years, from the sack of Rome in A.D. 410 to the Moslem capture of Constantinople in 1453, the Eastern branch of Christendom...
...Cyprus Mail, in circulation and influence. To prove army inefficiency, Foley printed stories on how his reporters had bluffed their way past guards into top-secret areas. When stern former Governor Sir John Harding put out a law giving him the right to suspend any newspaper without cause, Foley sent 150 protest telegrams to editors and such political leaders as Churchill and Attlee. In retaliation, the government fined him for publishing news likely to cause "alarm and despondency." Foley's fuss got the law revoked three months later...
...production has boosted output from the low of last spring. The Fed felt recovery had progressed far enough to permit two more of its district banks, Minneapolis and Chicago, to raise their discount rates from 1¾% to 2%. Wall Street snorted bullishly at these figures, at midweek sent Dow-Jones industrials to the year's high of 513.71, just 7.34 points off the alltime peak of April...