Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Total German coal production: 186,000,000 tons; average production of Polish mines (Upper Silesia and former Czech mines seized last year): 49,000,000 tons, estimated German war needs, at least 300,000,000 tons...
...Germans executed with moderate success last week, less valuable field troops are used, and Allied observers reported streams of reinforcements flowing toward Trier at week's end. They looked like about six divisions, which would be no great diversion from the 70 (out of Germany's total of over 100 divisions) known to be on the Polish Front. All week official Berlin continued to pretend that all was quiet on the Western Front, at week's end scornfully admitting "occasional little exchanges." The French reported a German counteroffensive taking shape in front of Trier, aimed...
...China and Japan brought the total world population at war to 1,210,000,000 out of almost...
Gideons use "Bible" as a verb. They have Bibled 95% of U. S. hotel rooms; their banner distribution of 103,000 Bibles in the year ending this summer brought their total Bibling to 1,580,588. Now the Gideons are looking for new fields. They have Bibled Eastern Airlines, the Clipper ships, are working on American and United Airlines. A new Gideon slogan is: "A Bible in Every Schoolroom in the Nation." Here the going is more chancy. Some States (such as Wisconsin and Washington) expressly forbid Holy Writ in their schools. In others, Gideon Bibling faces restrictions, constitutional...
...asked, "How many words do you know?" most educated adults will grossly underestimate their own vocabularies. Dr. Robert H. Seashore, Northwestern University, found (by judicious sampling) that average college students could recognize 61,000 basic and 96,000 derivative terms in an unabridged dictionary, a total of 157,000 words; bright students could recognize 190,000. Dr. Seashore pointed out that in the days of Shakespeare (whose working vocabulary has been given by scholars as 15,000 words) the English language was much smaller than...