Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least ?11,000-and that, as every sensible Londoner knew, would be only the beginning. "So much," fumed the Morning Herald on June 21, 1783, "has this extraordinary edifice cost the country-for one moiety of which sum, a much better dwelling might have been purchased." But in spite of all the fuss, the British went through with the "great repair," just as they had done before and were to do time and time again. For more than 200 years the house, now known as No. 10 Downing Street, has been one of the most unsuitable and yet tenacious...
...first syllable, asked if it could be pronounced "dye . . ." That pronunciation was wrong, but she was told to go ahead. When she misspelled the word (only one s). judges decided that she had been misled. Jolitta was allowed to try Quincunx. She spelled it, and, in spite of protests from Pittsburgh Pressman Joe Williams, Tina's escort, the deadlock continued...
...lengthen the average maturity of the federal debt, which had shrunk to 57 months, thus keep the Treasury from going to the market so often. He hoped to lessen competition with municipal and corporate issues, give the Federal Reserve a freer hand in controlling the money supply. In spite of complaints from money men that long-term issues would hinder the easing of money rates, Anderson tried several such issues. He judged the market shrewdly. Fortnight ago his longest-term issue (27 years), for $1 billion, was heavily oversubscribed...
Russia has its share of souped-up space cadets who want to blast off for Mars day after tomorrow, but official Soviet space experts have kept their heads in spite of their Sputnik successes. In Magyar Ifjusag, organ of Hungary's Communist Youth League, Leonid I. Sedov, head of the Soviet Interplanetary Communications Commission, says that unmanned Soviet rockets could reach the moon now, but he is more interested in a deliberate development of manned space flight...
...crew first attempted to sail into the nuclear testing zone on May 1, in spite of a federal injunction. The ketch was halted by the Coast Guard two miles out from Honolulu, and was towed back to port...