Word: year-and-a-half
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...Delhi, home minister Gulzarilal Nanda was sworn in as the new prime minister, a job he held briefly after the death of Nehru a year-and-a-half...
...future, Wilson's first worry is money. In a year-and-a-half, when the present Ford Foundation grant runs out, "there may be no Joint Center." While the Ford money is only about one-fourth of the budget, it is the Center's only unrestricted money. Without it, Wilson feels, "we would be faced with the necessity of hustling contracts, and we would begin to dance to the piper's tune...
Bloembergen's maser is used to amplify weak radiations of very short wavelength--for example, microwave radio signals. In use for a year-and-a-half on the Harvard College Observatory's 60-foot radio telescope, the maser has already helped double the known number of radio stars...
...Money. Within ten years, with time out for a year-and-a-half World War II hitch as a Marine Corps lieutenant, Fox had shuffled credits into a securities-real estate empire estimated at $25 million even while staying "in hock to my eyeballs." Among other interests, he controlled the U.S. Leather Co. (which he liquidated in 1952), held the principal interest in Western Union (which he sold out in 1952). He owned a 47-acre Connecticut estate at Fairfield, a house with a dining room imported from the 18th century London home of David Garrick, 6,500 acres...
...schedule, drawn up when William J. Bingham '16 was still Director of Athletics, falls in with the policies expounded by Provost Buck as long as a year-and-a-half...