Word: united
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vast 1947 project suggested the razing of many existing business structures, the rerouting of Massachusetts Avenue along Mt. Auburn Street (see map), and the elimination of what is now Harvard Square. A multi-unit shopping center under one roof would then be constructed (F on map). Each merchant would hold shares in this redevelopment project, entitling him to store space in the new all-weather shopping center...
...electronically the commands issued to it by the sequencing drum, can multiply two 16-dight numbers in a fraction over twelve thousands of a second. It can add these figures in one third of that time. Constants which are stored in the "memory system" also enable the arithmetic unit to compute automatically such functions as sine, cosine, and logarithms...
Designing the student's room has been a key problem for the architects. After consulting student committees, they evolved a basic unit for the single room. A two-man suite consists of two single rooms next to each other, with or with-out a partition in the middle...
Clark makes his comparisons by means of an "international unit" (IU). One IU equals the amount of goods and services that $1 could buy in the U.S. during the period 1925-1934 (see chart). Clark takes his figures for Russia from official Soviet statistics, but adjusts them in an involved process of his own invention. (His former computations about the Soviet economy were at one time heavily criticized; since then, however, they have been strikingly confirmed by independent research of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board...
...grouse-shooters], he cannot but contemplate with sardonic eye the scanty and dilapidated motor transport assembling at roadhead in the glen below him. The sun . . . no longer flashes from the coachwork of immaculate limousines backing and filling on the turf . . . The escort of dogs is more imperfectly disciplined. The unit has lost most of its auxiliaries-the pony men, the bearers of cameras and mackintoshes and flasks, the underkeeper who combined the functions of guide with those of a minor and excessively gloomy prophet ... By tea time today, the grouse should have enough material for a short sociological treatise-unless...