Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thousand dollars with no strings attached has been granted John A. Clardl. Briggs Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition, by the Ford Foundation...
Reformer Morris had sent long questionnaires to several thousand high Federal officials, asking them about their private finances. The House subcommittee wondered if well-to-do Lawyer McGrath had yet filled out his copy of the questionnaire. Answer: "I haven't decided whether I'll fill it out or whether I will advise anybody else in the Government...
...Cover] Heat had shimmered in Bombay since dawn, and hung on in the stifling dusk after the sunlight's glare was gone. But a thousand patient Hindus stood tight-packed and sweating before the Taj Mahal hotel to see the American Widow Roose- velt. They were rewarded by a strange tableau. A gleaming open automobile awaited the famous visitor. But when she climbed in, she did not sit down. She faced the applauding crowd, bowed her head and folded her hands before her in the Hindu posture of namqskar. It was a gesture which would have horrified and infuriated...
Throughout the U.S. (as in Canada and Britain and Western Europe), eager researchers are grasping for every usable tool they can find in the atomic kit. So far, of over a thousand known isotopes (many of them stable) of 98 elements, at least 60 radioactive forms have been tried in medicine and research. In the U.S., the Atomic Energy Commission is backing more than 300 research projects by private institutions in medicine and biochemistry, and there are many more, under security wraps, in AEC's own labs. And the nation's hospitals and universities themselves are sponsoring hundreds...
With Elaine, back in Italy, "the drums . . . rolled into one prolonged gigantic thunder." Perhaps partly to get away from all this racket, Pietro goes on the fifth Crusade, where he is captured by the Saracens and meets Zenobia. "To such a one, he thought . . . every thousand years the ribald gods give such a form in order to drive...