Word: strength
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nickels & Peanuts. On the coast of Baranof Island, Sitka, last capital of Russian America* was bustling with the clack and crunch of a new $55.5 million pulp mill abuilding. Up to the north, Nome's Sah Yung Ah Tim Mini Chapter (Eskimo talk for "strength gone from the body") of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis was busy pressing its immunization drive, and Bush Pilot Neal Foster, 41, reported that Nome (pop. 2,000) was having a pleasant day at 45° and that "a bunch of people are getting their boats in the water here now, mostly...
...strength of Landau's two wins, a fourth by John DuMoulin in the hammer, and a fifth in the javelin by Skip Pescosolido the varsity scored 13 points, good for a sixth place tie with Penn. Favored Villanova nosed out a surprising Penn State team to retain its title...
According to Schutz, the final purpose of the study will be to compare results of roommate predictions based upon personality factors, with results of predictions based upon sociological factors, such as religion, strength of religious faith, geographical area, economic status, private or public school background, and intelligence...
Payday. When the integration movement started, it was mainly inspired and organized by the army, whose leaders recognized that associating Moslems and Frenchmen would give the insurrection a strength it could never achieve if it were based solely on exasperation with the politicians in Paris. Military trucks and buses were commandeered to bring fellahin in from their farms, and the army saw to it that Moslem demonstrators did not lose a day's pay. The Moslem stevedores from the Algiers docks had good reason to join in, too. Since maritime traffic with France had been cut off. they were...
Special Techniques. The matador hovered near death, then began to gain strength slowly. This week Bienvenida was recovering. Like many of the 2,500 bullfighters, from the lowliest peones to the top matadors, whom Don Luis has treated, Bienvenida felt that no other surgeon could have saved his life...