Word: sampleses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of accepting the scholarship offered to him by the University of Virginia, Strauss set out to sell shoes for the family firm, headed southward with volumes of Latin poetry-Virgil, Ovid, Horace-packed along with his samples. After four years in the shoe business, he took a train to...
Sharing the Business. Father of the Japanese industry is Masaru Ibuka. 51, a prewar movie sound technician who in 1948 set up what is now the Sony Corp. to make tape recorders and other sound equipment. Hearing of the development of transistors at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Ibuka produced laboratory samples...
Brazil had little to lose in the try. Roughly equal in size to the U.S., it was still a poor, nonindustrial, coffee-based country after World War II. Now Brazil has a spreading highway net, modernized railroads, more than $1 billion worth of new power dams, improved port facilities, even...
Revolutionary War. Soldiers everywhere know that the Army that Lem Lemnitzer will take over has already plunged into a period of basic changes. "It's a damned revolution,'' said a head-shaking first sergeant on San Francisco's Angel Island. Samples of the revolution: MISSILES IN...
On an average day Columnist Riddle will field 40 such calls from readers, whose questions are as encyclopedic in scope as Riddle's grasp of the subject. He is rarely stumped. Some samples: