Word: sixteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...billion-dollar Aswan High Dam, partly financed by Russian credits, is to be the greatest monument in Egypt's history. Sixteen times the bulk of the Great Pyramid of Giza, the dam will create Lake Nasser, largest man-made lake in the world. According to the plans, it will bring into cultivation a badly needed million acres of now barren land, and double the present Egyptian output of electricity...
Lodge is not so pessimistic: he travels sixteen hours a day to close the Kennedy lead. The Lodge-Hughes debates are part of Lodge's simple strategy of achieving maximum exposure. Anyone in Harvard Square can tell you that Lodge can only lose (and has) in open debate with the devastatingly alert Independent. But Lodge is convinced that Hughes will pull votes from Kennedy on domestic issues. Lodge is fighting for the independent and marginal Democratic vote, including unreconciled McCormack supporters. Since Curtis supporters have nowhere else to go, the word Republican has been deleted from the Lodge campaign. Lodge...
...either side of Barcelona carried floods 75 ft. wide. Debris piled up against bridges and then the bridges plunged downstream. A 6-ft. wall of water smashed into the crowded industrial suburbs and carried all before it: hundreds of rubble-brick houses, telephone poles, autos. horses and wagons, people. Sixteen gypsies encamped under a bridge were swept clean away...
...Idlewild International Airport took the certificates at face value. They gave Missionary Orr a card on which was written: "As a precaution against introduction of smallpox: If you should develop suspicious symptoms of illness (such as chills, fever, weakness, loss of appetite, diarrhea) within the next seven to sixteen days, present this card promptly to a private physician or to health officers in your community. This is required by law." The word smallpox was in large letters. Orr pocketed the card and promptly forgot it. As a result, most of North and South America and parts of Europe waited anxiously...
Aside from teaching Ed Ahf provides two significant methods as examples for the Fifteen to sixteen per cent of its students are enrolled in honors sections, use only literary sources and more work of the students. Freshmen in these sections usually emerge with a better impression of the course than others, and Martin believes this segregation works more effectively in a writing course than in others, discussion in a Gen Ed Ahf section of great importance and therefore the best students off does not others...