Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Walks in Splendor" is an exhibit of luxurious costumes created by famous couturiers over the last five centuries. The collection starts in the 1500's with Queen Elizabeth's waistcoat, then skips to an excellent eighteenth century array...
...counted against him. His real education was skimpy. So Sherman put a new and imaginary personality on paper. He subtracted 15 years from his age, added a cum laude degree from the University of Pittsburgh, work on a Ph.D. at the University of Florida and a broad array of engineering experience. Then he mailed his resume to a wide range of electronics firms all over the country...
...prove his first charge--that Allied terror bombing was not only cruel but militarily useless--Rumpf marshalls an impressive array of evidence. The British had hoped to smother the German economy by burning out the hearts of German industrial cities. Strangely enough, however, cities like Essen, Cologne, and Berlin, which by 1944 had been reduced to charred shells of their former selves, were producing munitions at the same rate as before the air raids. Hamburg, for example, suffered four devastating night attacks in a nine day period in the summer of 1943 which killed 60,000 civilians and demolished half...
Working with Technician Otto Post, he put together an intricate array of glassware that looks like a crystal pipe organ for Queen Mab's palace. It makes no music, but clicks monotonously every 30 to 120 seconds when it tilts to pour off some of its mixture. This C.C.D. machine works on the principle of liquid-liquid extraction: two substances are not likely to be equally soluble in two different solvents. And if the solvents are not soluble in each other, they can be separated. Whatever is dissolved in them will be separated also...
With 82% of India's people still living outside the cities and towns, this growth has required an ingenious array of promotional devices to reach the villagers. Agents are trained to sell "life insurance for living" with policies that pay for retirement or for the marriage of a daughter as well as death benefits. The company explains the value of insurance with short feature films, primarily for rural audiences, that have simple plots, amateur talent, and sound tracks in the 13 main Indian languages. Itinerant bards, telling stories and singing insurance commercials, wander from village to village. Everywhere possible...