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Word: amounted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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...smallish, owlish man, Goldberg is as alert as a chipmunk, packs an astonishing amount of stamina and energy (in the thick of marathon negotiations, he switches from Sanka to coffee). Although his manner is amiable, he is as tough as whip leather at the bargaining table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: SIX FOR THE KENNEDY CABINET | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

...Several stars or star clusters showing inexplicably wide deviations in their chemical composition. In some cases, they varied vastly in the amount of lithium and beryllium they contained, and one star (3 Centauri A) contained 100 times more phosphorus than the sun. The discovery poses the still unanswered question: Why do stars have such different contents if, as is generally supposed, they were all formed by similar processes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Starry-Eyed | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

With the aid of funds supplied by Harvard, and other grants by the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Asian Foundation, East Asian universities are able to improve the quality of their faculties and to increase the amount and extent of their research...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Education in South Asia Criticized By Reischauer | 12/21/1960 | See Source »

...investigators granted that they had not been able to track down all of the dancer's brokerage accounts-and he had them in Manhattan, Panama and Switzerland-so he could have made all of the money he said he did. In one account alone, he reportedly made the amount the state listed as his total "ascertainable" profit. In Paris, Darvas called the charges false, a "cynically irresponsible action, book burning by publicity." As soon as he gets a copy of the complaint, he said, he will explain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: $216,000 or $2,000,000? | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

...play first states that men patronize brothels not for sexual satisfaction, but in order to fulfill self-illusions; to try to translate their dreamworlds into some sort of physical actuality. Genet then projects his whorehouse onto a political plan and asserts that Change on this planet can never amount to progress, for it is merely illusion. He equates change to the sham and artificiality of the brothel in a perplexing and unconvincing way. Jose Quintero's direction is generally sloppy, and does little to clarify or enhance Genet's work...

Author: By Frederick H. Gardner, | Title: Off-Broadway Theater | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

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