Word: length
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...DeMille's 68 movies in the 36 years since he made the first feature-length film (The Squaw Man) have cost an approximate total of $33 million (not including advertising expenses). Thus far, the first 67 have grossed $562 million...
...very length and heat of the Council debate show that reasonable men never agree on the methods of defeating prejudice. No one will question the motives of the Council; but it has acted unwisely in attempting to legislate against prejudice...
...also determined that the average length of a permanent appointment is 34 years: that the average age of appointment to an associate professorship is 34 and the average retirement age 68. The figure 34 was then divided by the number of permanent positions for each department. The result is simply the number of years between appointments to a department...
Money isn't everything, so we'll overlook her $32 million if you will print a full-length picture of Ana Maria Alvarez Calder...
...Andean's house is stone or adobe, with a thatched roof. He sleeps on llama skins, and has no more sanitary conveniences than his llamas. He usually wears shirt, coat, knee-length pants, sandals made from old automobile tires, a poncho and a chullo (wool headgear with flaps, like a skater's cap). All these his wife makes for him. She also bears him children; the altitude, which often makes newcomers from the coast temporarily sterile, seems to have no such effect on highlanders...