Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dearer Ovaltine. The British move touched off convulsive reflex actions around the fiscal world. (To cushion the shock, British banks and exchanges were closed for one day; other countries declared similar holidays.) All the dominions devalued their currencies in proportion; Canada, a dollar country, devalued its dollar 10%. In the colonies the readjustment was automatic. Ireland, Egypt and Israel brought their pounds into parity with Britain's. Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, The Netherlands and Sweden made devaluation moves...
...nine cylinders can store 4,000 numbers of 16 digits each and 4,000 coded "commands." In response to the proper command (either remembered or coming from outside), the numbers are "read off" electrically. They zip through the machine as coded electrical pulses. Basically the process is similar to a man's pulling a telephone number out of his memory and spinning it on a dial...
...tapa). The Pacific islanders made it by pounding the fibrous inner bark of certain trees. So did Indians in Nicaragua and Mexico. The cloth of both hemispheres is the same papery stuff, and the wood and stone pounding tools the two peoples used (shown in the exhibit) are so similar that they might have been made by the same...
...nine cylinders can store 4,000 numbers of 16 digits each and 4,000 coded "commands." In response to the proper command (either remembered or coming from outside), the numbers are "read off" electrically. They zip through the machine as coded electrical pulses. Basically the process is similar to a man's pulling a telephone number out of his memory and spinning it on a dial...
...composite gadget made of shell and stone lashed together and a nearly circular barbless hook carved out of bone or shell in one piece. Almost identical hooks of both types have been found together on the northern coast of Chile. Dr. Ekholm believes that patterns so characteristic and so similar could not have been developed independently...