Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Palaver. Next day the solemn powwow was held. "The land where the Chavantes live now is far from the land where the Chavante ancestors are buried," Chief Apoena said. "We ask the powerful strangers for pledges that we shall not be molested here." Apoena was also troubled about "the great bird which flies without moving its wings." Would such birds come often? Mereiles, through his interpreter, said they probably would, but never as enemies. Then Apoena suggested that one day he would like to send what he had "most inside of himself," i.e., one of his sons...
...dressing room after the game, battered Navy players howled, chanted, hugged each other. It was a great day for the Navy. It was also a great day for round-faced Eddie Erdelatz, 37, coaching his first year at Annapolis. Said Eddie: "I've said all along, and still say, that the great thing is spirit...
...through the critical years of the bomb project, Gardner worked at Oak Ridge and Los Alamos. As one colleague put it, his brain was "one of the nation's great natural resources." When he returned to Berkeley in 1945, his disease was well advanced. He complained of fatigue and shortness of breath. X-ray examination of his chest showed fibrosis in both lungs. But no one could tell the cause; no treatment did any good. He had hardly enough strength for laboratory desk work...
...last week's Nature magazine, R. Hanbury Brown and C. Hazard of Britain's University of Manchester announced that they had detected radio stars in M. 31, the great spiral nebula in Andromeda, 750,000 light-years from the earth. They did the job with the largest radio telescope (a trellis-like "dish" of wires) at Jodrell Bank Experimental Station south of Manchester. Normally this telescope points upward, receiving radio waves from a narrow "beam" directly overhead. If the mast at the center is swung 14° to one side, the telescope points, in effect, toward the Andromeda...
Good Promotion. One of the most practical methods, suggests Pleuthner, is to glamorize the regular Sunday services between the great church festivals of Christmas and Easter by dedicating them to special groups and purposes. Examples: Founders' Day Sunday ("Why not honor those families that founded your church?"); Good Neighbor Sunday (special letters of invitation from the minister to all members of the neighborhood) ; Medical Sunday ("Reserve the front pews for families of doctors or nurses"); Flower Sunday ("when due tribute is paid to God for His gift of flowers to our world...