Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...negligible." But he is confident that radio, which paid him handsomely in the past, will do as well by him again. And money will be welcome, Rudy reports sadly, since his yearly income is now "down to around $150,000 or $225,000, depending on how my moving pictures make...
...make things even more difficult, the Italian government hoped to buy the statue itself, did its best to force the selling price down to a figure it could afford. As soon as the Pieta was announced for sale, the government's council of fine arts promptly ruled that the Pieta might not leave Italy, thereby spiking any possible foreign offers, including a rumored $550,000 bid from the former White House envoy to the Vatican, Myron C. Taylor...
...workers have hearing defects, and that many result from noisy working conditions. Such defects, Hargrave argues, reduce efficiency, impair health and affect the workers' home life. The source of his data: 2,549 workers at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard (now closed) whose cornmandant had invited Hargrave to make the study. Amid the clang of steel, the rat-a-tat-tat of jackhammers and riveting machines, Earman Hargrave interviewed man after man. Some of his findings: ¶| Even the hard of hearing had no trouble with common shop talk, e.g., such words as blower, rivet, steel. But unfamiliar words...
...actually being suffocated would fight for life and yell to attract attention, says Dr. Bowden. "Why," he asks, "should a healthy baby die without much fuss just because he is face downward or his face is covered? But a baby dying of natural disease might well be expected to make a quiet exit...
...allowed a plenary session," and don't even own their own buildings. Their priests, he said, are chosen by bishops who are appointed by the Pope. And the Pope, added Blanshard, is the "most absolute monarch in the world," the only one who says, "I can't make a mistake...