Word: surely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What ever happened to the saber-toothed tiger, the dire wolf, the mammoth, the giant beaver, and more than 100 other species of large mammals that once inhabited North America? All that paleontologists know for sure is that about 10,000 years ago, as glaciers retreated northward into Canada during the Late Pleistocene epoch, these animals suddenly became extinct. Their demise, many scientists believe, was caused either by sudden climatic change -which upset their breeding season and produced a lethal sterility-or simply by winter weather, which ironically may have become increasingly severe as the glaciers waned...
...will handle aircraft maintenance and the training of ground and pilot crews-but not stewardesses-on both airlines' 490-passenger Boeing 747 jumbo jets, due for delivery starting in 1969. Meanwhile, to cut capitalization costs as well as facilitate joint servicing, TWA will work with Boeing to make sure that design specifications on both fleets, covering everything from cockpit layout to cabin color schemes, are the same...
...netted $1,275,100 - enough to keep the college going for two years. "We had sweaty hands," says SOS Treasurer Robert Izzi, "and we were so emotionally keyed up that when the announcement keeping us open did come through, we started singing The Impossible Dream." That dream, to be sure, still has a deadline: a $3,500,000 transfusion is needed if K.S.C. is to stay open for five more years. But the college's undaunted students have no doubt that they can raise the money. They are already planning another fund-raising project. As for the University...
...There may be a few we didn't catch," said Cheseboro, but if so, he added, "you can be sure their activity has been cut down." It was probably never very much to begin with. Boys at the Hun School are supposed to get only $5 a week allowance, which would only buy some ten cigarettes...
...could imagine a bleaker outcome of the promises of 1917," he said. In 1917 socialists were sure that world revolution was imminent. By 1923 this hope had dimmed, but there was still promise in the "unique Bolshevik revolution." With the Stalinist counter-revolution, this possibility, too, was gone, Shachtman said...