Word: tracts
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...because more than 100,000 people visited a tiny museum last year where only a few of its 400 paintings and illustrations can be hung, more than a stop sign is needed. The folks expect to build the new museum on a 40-acre tract near the Housatonic River on the outskirts of the village. They plan to ask the President to come up and start their campaign this spring. The betting is he'll show...
According to Harvard’s 1869-1870 Annual Report, “By the conditions of the gift the tract is to be kept open, or is to be used as the site of such buildings only as are not inconsistent with its use as gardens, public walks, or ornamental grounds...
...Corps for twenty years. He joined in 1936. My mother made him retire in 1956. He loved the Marine Corps. He would have stayed if my mother had allowed him to. She made him quit because she got tired of being transferred around all the time and living in tract houses on U.S. military bases...
...success of a few products has inspired a host of others. Miles Laboratories sells a test for urinary-tract infections, Medical Frontiers markets a product called V.D. Alert to test for gonorrhea, and Thermascan expects to have a home check for breast diseases, including cancer, ready by 1987. Creative Strategies predicts that sales of self-care products will reach $1.8 billion by 1988, and Marketing Communications magazine has suggested that handy medical devices could become as ubiquitous as wristwatches...
...live with his mother, a high school teacher, and his father, a postal worker. While home, he did a little work for the Kerry campaign and studied for the LSATs, but most of his days were spent at the beach, doing reading for his thesis—a tract on the state of liberal arts education in the 21st century...