Word: enjoyments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before breakfast. Trailed by Secret Service men, he strode 20 blocks to the Union Station, met Bess and Margaret on the 7:50 B. &O. train from Independence. It was the beginning of an up-before-the-sun, busy-every-minute, presidential week. The President seemed to enjoy...
...sorry to see the earth discarded as a timekeeper. But there are consolations. If the world's official time is kept by the atom clock, the length of the day, in atomic hours, will increase as the motion of the earth slows down. Eventually man will enjoy a 25-hour day. This will happen, according to some calculations, in about 1,800,000 centuries...
...Does he enjoy his work? That, Blume says, is "an awkward question. By enjoyment I usually mean sensuous pleasure, and it certainly isn't that. You don't always enjoy the thing you're possessed by, but you have...
...week or so, workmens' coats and tools will disappear from the shelves of the new Woodberry Poetry Room in Lamont, making room for volumes of verse and recordings of poetry readings. Harvard men will enjoy increased facilities for listening and a larger room than the old one in Widener. But as things stand now, Radcliffe girls will be unable to use it as they could use the old Wood-berry room. The loss of this privilege will affect not only poetry lovers, but girls in English O, who need to listen to these records as part of their course work...
Though great efforts are being made to increase set production, Britain seems clearly distanced by U.S. television. Even the wretched U.S. television commercials are signs of a prosperity that British television does not and may never enjoy...