Word: meter
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...pass over the migration solution so quickly ? Granting that 600 years hence we will be down to one square meter apiece, if we look 600 years the other way, we were still more than 100 years from finding the whole Western Hemisphere-when esteemed leaders still were sure the world was flat...
...Theater de Lys for a 24th anniversary present ( The Threepenny Opera has been running there since 1955); earlier he had built the White Barn Theater in Westport, Conn. To help himself and his wife get around the city, he bought a Mercedes-Benz 190, had it equipped with a meter and a rooftop light, coughed up another $17,000 for a hackie's license and medallion. Then he hired a driver who ferries the Schweitzers around and spends the rest of his time hacking on his own (he and the boss split the fares fifty-fifty, giving the cabbie...
...truly horrifying developments though, from the Crimson point of view, came in the Cardinal Cushing 1000 and the Prout 600. In the 1000, the New York Athletic Club's Tom Murphy, the Pan-American 800-meter champion, took his customary lead and seemed headed for victory. Far back in the pack, seemingly having trouble hitting his stride, was Yale's great Tommy Carroll...
...science and the unpredictable turn of events. Says the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs: "With the present rate of increase, it can be calculated that in 600 years the number of human beings on earth will be such that there will be only one square meter for each to live on. It goes without saying that this can never take place; something will happen to prevent...