Word: tome
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result, about the only food that reaches the Biafrans is flown to the Spanish island of Fernando Po or the Portuguese island of Sao Tome and then, under cover of night, airlifted into the bush. The planes, which are used on other nights to fly in arms and ammunition, land on a lantern-lit stretch of highway somewhere between Owerri and Port Harcourt, frequently under fire from federal ack-ack guns. Because of the high risk, the pilots demand high wages, and the total cost of one shipment of food from Europe can be as much as $25,000. Thus...
...book is worth reading after all. She may carry it with her to the reading room or she may immediately discard it in the stacks. Similarly, not all the information which is copied into RNA is transported to the cytoplasm. Finally, as the girl may postpone reading the tome once in the reading room, so sometimes the RNA message is not immediately utilized in the cytoplasm. On the other hand, the girl may fall in love with the book and decide to carry it with her forever. Likewise, the RNA messages may persist in the cytoplasm and be read over...
...Saigon's Vice President), works in the mission's accounting department. Bo is widely read, an art lover, an ex-journalist, and his French is so polished that he once taught the language. He likes to quote Balzac, but his favorite aphorism, from an ancient Vietnamese tome, is: "Do not torment yourself if your virtues are not recognized, but pay more attention to not ignoring those of others...
Last week official Washington's attention focused on The Codebreakers, a 1,164-page tome written by David Kahn, a 37-year-old journalist and amateur cryptographer. It is perhaps the best and most complete account of cryptography and the security agency's role yet published. A tribute to Kahn's thoroughness-he took six years to write the book-is that NSA officials have been astounded by his knowledge of the agency's operations. "He's certainly done his homework," said one awed expert. Foggy Bottom and intelligence types, who have made the book...
...Trinite church in Paris, and later a teaching post at the conservatory. Today, he still gives composition classes and plays for weekly Mass, occasionally enlivening a service with a hair-raising, dissonant improvisation on the organ. In his spare time, he labors at a scholarly tome on the subtleties of rhythm, which he regards as "the primordial, perhaps the essential, part of music...