Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part of Jupiter, Paul Sparer has brought an excellent speaking voice and an assured performance that missed few opportunities to play up all aspects of his prank on Alkmena. David Bauman was adopt as Mercury, the pandering, puckish son of Jupiter of an earlier affair. He achieved, through good timing, the proper tinge of irony to his barbs. Though the role of Amphitryon, thanks to the machinations of Jupiter, is relatively small, John Seiler handled it skillfully...
...unpleasantness prior to the 1926 encounter. Princeton credited participation in the Yale game and the Harvard game equally towards getting a letter, while at Harvard a letter could be acquired only by playing in the Yale game. Princeton athletic authorities considered this a snub, and wanted Harvard to adopt a policy similar to Princeton...
Only twenty-four days and one decisive meeting separate the drive for a useful war memorial from complete failure. Two groups have the power to adopt or throw out the Saltonstall Committee's plan for a $60,000 inscription in Memorial Church. One group, the directors of the Alumni Association, met eleven days ago, and, without first finding out the sentiment of its membership, voted to accept the Saltonstall proposal. The other group, the executive board of the Associated Harvard Clubs, meets on November...
Russia is dead set on expansion, the President said, but when she sees that no additional countries are willing to adopt Communism, she will begin negotiating with the western nations in a more reasonable fashion...
...though the U.S. Constitution directed Congress to fix the standards of weights & measures, Congress did nothing about it for 80 years. Congressmen were passionately interested in the subject, but they could not agree. Repeatedly Washington begged Congress to pass a standardization law; in 1795 he suggested that the U.S. adopt the new French metric system. Jefferson thought he had a better idea: he wanted a system based on the length of a uniform cylindrical pendulum which, at 45° N. latitude, would move at the rate of one beat a second. Congress did not go for that, either...