Word: types
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Students for the first time will have the chance to type their examinations if the Faculty in January accepts a proposal of the Committee on Educational Policy, it was learned yesterday...
Bookstore owners noted no single type of book as the most popular. Their bestsellers were "The Art of Loving," by Eric Fromm, "Views of Harvard," "Don Quixote," Fred Allen's "Much Ado About Me" and "Dylan Thomas' Poems...
Fractious Cyclones. Meteorology of the weather-adage type is at least as old as the Bible ("The north wind driveth away rain"; Proverbs 25:23), and knowledge of atmospheric behavior has accumulated slowly through the centuries. In the early 19th century, for instance, it was known that large areas of low atmospheric pressure sweep across the North Temperate Zone roughly from west to east and are apt to bring stormy weather. But this knowledge was useless for weather forecasting. The stormy "lows" or "cyclones"* move much faster than letters carried by stagecoaches, so in those days countries lying in their...
Rossby felt that the vigorous, hard-shelled U.S. type of meteorology was in good hands. It might be better for him to start at a new level, studying neglected properties of the atmosphere. With the help of the Swedish government, Rossby set up in Stockholm the International Meteorological Institute, which soon became a place of pilgrimage for meteorologists, both European and American...
...mergers are a matter of simple survival. With plastics, foils and other new materials fast moving into the container field and taking over areas once dominated by the tin can and the glass jar, the oldtime companies must expand or be left behind. The company that sticks with one type of container could be stuck...