Word: whole
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Congratulations . . . The one man who symbolizes Anglo-American unity, without which the whole world would slide (or plummet) back into the Eastern darkness of the antiChrist...
...Acheson the problem of further aid to Formosa did not exist; the time was already past. Like China, argued the Secretary to the Congressmen, Formosa was all but lost, and to try to help Chiang Kai-shek on his final island bastion would jeopardize the whole U.S. stake in Asia...
When not more urgently engaged, Bessie grinds out whole books of useful mathematical tables. One of them has 290 pages solidly packed with figures. A skilled operator, working with a desk calculator (an elaborate "adding machine"), might have completed the task in several years of steady, grueling labor. Bessie took twelve days...
...least, it could have been. The colleges who were not caught breaking the rules voted to acquit because they hadn't been caught, or because they were just inside the foul line, or because they thought he whole business was silly. The NCAA may be fulfilling its constructional promise by establishing a uniform law of amateurism; if so, it is proceeding under a definition of "amateur" that stretches Noah Webster's reasoning to its limit...
Burke found four generations of Harvard undergraduates "good lads, on the whole, but not very careful about lights." He never had a serious argument with one, he says, and one many occasions, a student or two would stop by the booth for a long chat...