Word: types
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hold Aloof. Academy President Nesmeyanov seems the very model of the independent scholar and gracious host. But the academy's general secretary is a cop type named Topchiev, whose job it is to keep the "party character" alive within the academy. Through Topchiev, the party still belabors scientists with demands that they "must not hold aloof from the ideological struggle," and if deviating intellectuals no longer disappear from the face of the earth, they can still disappear from the pages of Vestnik. After accepting an invitation to The Netherlands recently. Physicist Landau asked if he might bring along...
...book salesman, appeared in Britain, began dealings that led to his buying the Britannica (in 1901). In 1898, he teamed with the Times of London in a hard-sell campaign to hawk the encyclopedia at cut rates with time payments and advertising. A howl arose over the raucous black-type hucksterism in the grey pages of the "Thunderer." Wrote one affronted M.P. to Hooper: "You have made a damnable hubbub, sir, and an assault upon my privacy with your American tactics." But in a few years, Hooper's whooping sold 100,000 sets of the Britannica, and earned...
...just then the Master came striding out of the fitting room. He was closely followed by a distinguished, but jacket-less fellow with a tape measure around his neck, and by a shorter, less distinguished man with a fitting form. The one with the form, clearly a lesser type, picked imaginary threads from the Master's suit. His more distinguished colleague handed their client a waiting umbrella and murmured that he would have the order sent on to the House...
According to present plans, Chavez will use some type of accompaniment for the lectures. However, no decision has yet been made whether to employ an entire orchestra or only a piano...
...Captain William Bligh noted 169 years ago after he was cast away by the Bounty mutineers, some of his lifeboat companions went weeks with no bowel movement, had no lasting ill effects. For a trip to the moon, the Air Force thinks it now has an airtight zipper-type fastening for pressure suits that will enable the pilot to function like a duck hunter opening the flap on his long-Johns; the fecal matter will go into plastic bags, be deodorized and stowed unobtrusively...