Word: number
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Harvard's three-man indoor team of Captain Walter Beveraggl at number two position, Tom Calhoun at number one, and his brother Sandy at back, got a slow start in the unfamiliar building. Cornell, which had just returned from defeating Princeton, 16 to 4, had a 3 to 0 lead at the end of the first chukker...
...Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York discovered that there's nothing like an oldtimey masked ball to attract partygoers. Staging a masquerade in the Waldorf-Astoria grand ballroom for its Pension Fund, the Philharmonic lured in 1,200 masked dancers, twice the number that attended two previous open-faced fund-raising parties. Among the celebrities and socialites who showed up (at $25 a ticket): the white-tied Marquess of Milford Haven and his American fiancee, Mrs. Romaine Simpson; black-tied ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia and Queen Alexandra; Warren Austin, permanent U.S. delegate to the U.N., and Mrs. Austin...
...joined the Department of Agriculture in 1909, the most up-to-date termite catalogue available was one published five years earlier in Belgium. The Belgians had catalogued 400 species. When Snyder published his definitive work on U.S. termites in 1935 (Our Enemy the Termite; Comstock Publishing Co., Inc.), the number of classified species had jumped to 1,915. Last week in Washington, the Smithsonian Institution was selling Snyder's latest work, a paperbound, 490-page publication entitled Catalog of the Termites (Isoptera) of the World-a revised classification of 1,932 species...
Snyder believes that his latest catalogue only scratches the surface. His best guess on the ultimate number of species which may be discovered: almost...
Richardson's real phone number is Eliot...