Word: tenfold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Used to measure the strength of earthquakes. Because the scale is logarithmic, each higher number represents a tenfold increase in the magnitude of the tremors, and a 30-fold increase in the energy released. Thus a 2-point quake is barely perceptible, a 5 may cause minor damage, a 7 is severe, and an 8 is a violent quake...
...attack; in Augusta, Ga. As more and more black students enrolled in predominantly white universities, Pitts, the son of a tenant farmer, defended the role of traditionally black institutions. In his ten years as president of Miles College, which serves Birmingham's black community, Pitts increased the endowment tenfold, doubled the enrollment and won white allies like John U. Monro, who left his post as dean of Harvard College in 1967 to join the Miles faculty full time. Pitts left Miles in 1971 to become president of his alma mater, Paine College...
...position has deteriorated dangerously and that they had better do something about the situation -and fast. Thousands of small investors have returned from off-season vacations to find telegrams informing them that their margin accounts have been sold out. Margin calls by two big Wall Street houses have multiplied tenfold since the second week in November. Other investors have taken what money they had left and fled-many, apparently, to the safety of bank accounts. As the stock market nosedived, U.S. mutual savings banks took in $275 million in November, their first inflow of funds after five straight months...
Even though science and engineering remain M.I.T.'s basic educational pursuits, a growing number of its 4,000 undergraduates are opting for more than just the requisite 10% of their course credits in the humanities. Literature classes are swamped; creative writing courses have grown tenfold in five years. Says Poet Patricia Gumming of her students: "They make fascinating analogies to science. They have a way of rushing to the blackboard and covering it with equations: W equals world view, G equals God and so on. You can be teaching John Donne and end up with a board like...
...reattributions were a downgrading. Restudying a landscape attributed to a minor Dutch artist, Allart van Everingden, Fahy's experts concluded that it was painted by Jacob van Ruisdael, one of the great landscapists of all time, thereby increasing its assessed value at least tenfold. The experts decided that a nativity "attributed to the Florentine school" had been painted by Giotto himself...