He was sworn-in as president seventy-six years ago during the Great Depression -- the worst economic crisis in the country's history.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

It is about a man who lives alone in a village from which everyone fled during Lebanon's fifteen-year civil war.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

In fact, the publication Science Watch listed her as the 49th most-cited researcher in the world during that 20-year period.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

In fact, the publication Science Watch listed her as the forty-ninth most-cited researcher in the world during that twenty-year period.

VOA: special.2010.05.18

During tough times -- I mean we are in a recession right now -- this is like affordable luxury.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

Independent of those things, the findings still showed that optimists had less of a chance of dying during the eight-year period.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

In some classes, only Spanish is spoken, even during the Pledge of Allegiance -- a morning tradition for American schoolchildren.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

It is the story of a black woman's search for happiness and her true identity, during twenty-five years and three marriages.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

During his thirty-five years in a mental hospital in Switzerland, Mister Wolfli created twenty-five thousand pages of drawings and stories.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

During his thirty-six years in business, Red Adair and his crews battled more than two thousand fires all over the world.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

The first Academy Awards were presented in nineteen twenty-nine during a private dinner at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood,California.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

This week in our series, Harry Monroe and Kay Gallant describe events during the spring of eighteen sixty-three.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

The Institute of International Education in New York says thirty-one percent during the last academic year were undergraduates.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

Researchers in the United States studied one hundred thousand women during an eight-year period, beginning in nineteen ninety-four.

VOA: special.2009.04.15