Word: adamses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inventor Bert Adams demonstrated his new, nonrechargeable battery for the U.S. Army with understandable pride. Just as he claimed, it put out a steady current even in extreme heat or extreme cold. Worthless, said the military technicians. No, thank you.
It was John F. Adams, assistant to the Summer School registrar, who told the well-dressed youngsters what they were too old for and what they were too young for.
Harvard's 60 summer high school students "are on the same sink-or-swim basis as the other students--but they swim better," said Adams. "A high school student last year got the highest grade given." The average high school student tends to do better than the average student.
In this century alone, six Justices have been appointed in presidential election years, the last, William Brennan, being named by Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower little more than a month before the 1956 election, when the nation also had a chance to change its leadership. Chief Justice John Marshall was appointed...
Snake in Eden. Like a film running in reverse, Lynd's version of American history reels backward from the New Left to the Declaration of Independence -"the single most concentrated expression of the revolutionary intellectual tradition." Yet even in the beginning, Lynd observes critically, there was a snake in...