Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fifty thousand Egyptians crowded under a vast, quilted tent in Cairo's Republic Square one evening last week to hear Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser proclaim his long-promised constitution. This was the moment when Egypt was to pass from military dictatorship to "republican and democratic government." To mark the switch, Nasser and his eight-man junta had resigned their army commissions. They took their places on the platform wearing civilian clothes. "The true revolution begins today," orated Nasser. "The whole people will constitute a supreme council for the revolution." "Ascha Gamal!" (Long live Gamal), chorused the crowd...
...sets of coordinated work's moved by weights. Its 445 toothed wheels revolve at rates which vary from once every ten seconds to once every 25,000 years. (Olsen once showed a small wheel to a friend with the remark: "This piece will first be used in another thousand years.") Among the things that the clock computes: the days of the week, date, month and year on the Gregorian calendar, the Julian day and year, the movements of the planets, sunrise and sunset by mean solar time and true solar time, central European time, and sidereal time. Inventor Olsen...
...chum, and many get a hook instead. In hook, out fish, in hook, out fish-the work falls quickly into a pounding rhythm that maddens the blood like drums. The deck-holes are filling fast with 20-pounders that flail like thunder as the blood-mist steams above their thousand throes. The run stops as suddenly as it began. A storm is rising, and the fish go down...
Editor's Note: Study is not the only concern of university students. They are young and romantic, and mature enough to think of marriage. The Mita Campus distributed a questionnaire, and the following are ideals of one thousand Keio students: LOVE-MARRIAGE IS FASHIONABLE--Both men and women students believe that from love to marriage is the best way. Few believed the traditional Japanese "interview marriage" is good. Thoughts of people about marriage have changed. They know that mutual affection is more fundamental than things such as birth, property, etc. Are love affairs and marriages two different things? Many answers...
...These benefits make it practically obligatory to get married and propagate. A thousand dollars for each child in college--why, the man with four children is getting an extra $16,000 over a few years." We nodded. "And I am being cheated out of the same $16,000." We nodded again...