Word: two
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks ago, a Virginia power commission received two requests for permission to build power plants. One was from a private company which wanted to build a dam; the other was from a public company that was planning a steam generating plant. Both groups are planning to serve the same area...
Public ownership of electric utilities occurs in two forms. First, there are the federally-built projects such as Hoover Dam, the TVA, and dams in Washington and California. The electricity produced by these plants is either sold to private distributors or brought to the consumer through publicly-owned lines. Secondly, there are municipally-owned power plants, mostly financed by the Rural Electrification Administration. Together, these methods produce about 20 percent of the nation's power...
There are amusing touches. The first accounts of Lincoln's shooting, taken off the New York Tribune wire, are as confused and contradictory as any modern disaster reports. Gettysburg sounds like two different battle from the reports of Virginia and Ohio correspondents--just as the latest war sounded incredible to readers of both American and Japanese dispatches...
...polo team came back from New Jersey yesterday after dropping a close 16 to 15 decision to Princeton in an indoor battle which saw two extra chukkers...
...Trapezoidal means like a trapezoid, or two sides parallel," William V. H. Mason '51, spokesman for the group, said. Actually it's trapeziform, or trapezate, like a trapezium, or no sides parallel...