Word: noah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...encomiums from colleagues and White House aides. The department has 30,000 employees, a budget of $3.2 billion and a heterogeneous collection of responsibilities ranging from taking the census every ten years to collecting economic statistics every month. Kreps once quipped: "The only difference between Commerce and Noah's ark is that Commerce has only one of everything...
This year there was no question. Though future stars such as Yannick Noah, Johann Kriek and Pat DuPre all had fine tournaments, and Vitas Gerulaitis did, after all, make the finals, the 1979 U. S. Open belonged, like it or not, to John McEnroe...
...trained teachers. The dependence was so marked that textbook use in Europe became known as "the American system." The authors, often clergymen, had no problem defining the national identity: it was white, Protestant and suspicious of foreigners. The Rev. Jedidiah Morse, for example, a friend of Dictionary Compiler Noah Webster's and the author of America's first geography textbook, described the Spanish as "naturally weak and effeminate...
NONFICTION: A Place for Noah, Josh Greenfeld · Evita: First Lady, John Barnes · Ezra Pound in Italy, edited by Gianfranco Ivancich, photographs by Vittorugo Contino · First Person Rural, Noel Perrin · People of the Lake, Richard E. Leakey and Roger Lewin · The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn · The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen
NONFICTION: A Place for Noah, Josh Greenfeld ∙ Evita: First Lady, John Barnes ∙ First Person Rural, Noel Perrin ∙ Inventing America, Garry Wills ∙ The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn ∙ The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen...