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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Word leaked out that the Department of Transport has a well-advanced plan to build the free world's first atom-driven icebreaker. To displace 7,000 tons, the craft will have almost twice the power of a diesel-engined vessel, probably cost around $40 million, three times more than Canada's diesel-powered icebreaker Labrador. To build the new ship, Canada will need help from the U.S., but since a Canadian icebreaker would be a major addition to joint U.S.-Canadian forces in the Arctic, Canadian planners expect Washington to give all technical assistance-and a hearty...
...temple was opened to the public for 17 days, but after its dedication this week, only Mormons may enter who have been "recommended for participation in the various ceremonies" and bear certificates from their local churches that they are "morally clean, have paid their tithes, sustain the word of wisdom and sustain the authority of the church...
...Hungarian, Swedish, Celtic, Danish and Basque scholars have all proved to their satisfaction that their respective language was the one spoken in the Garden of Eden. A 17th century Englishman demonstrated that the language must have been Chinese, since a newborn baby's first yell is the Chinese word...
...recreation of language" a proficiency in more than a dozen tongues. Brooklyn-born, onetime chief interpreter for the military government in Berlin, and now librarian of the Linguistics Department at the University of Jerusalem, he ranges through history, religion, love, and 37 different languages in covering everything from oxymoron (word paradoxes) to lallation (the pronunciation of l for r that is common among Chinese who speak foreign languages). A sampling of some of Author Jacobs' observations...
...Binding. In Manhattan, a delivery truck of Barnes & Noble, Inc., publishers of school and college textbooks, has the word PASS painted in large letters on the left side of its tail gate, the word FLUNK on the right...