Word: advent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writing because we own a home adjoining Mr. Milgram's "Maplecrest" here in Princeton. Without going into a long treatise on the subject, I would like to say that six years ago we bought our house for $14,500 before the advent of Maplecrest. Today the value has increased to the $20,000-$22,000 range. Houses similar to ours have sold for this amount just as quickly "after Maplecrest" as before...
...Plymouth,* and Sir Francis Drake cockily went on with his game of bowls, supposedly boasted that he had time to finish and beat the Spaniards too. Of the running sea fight that began next day, Historian Mattingly observes: "No naval campaign in previous history, and none afterward until the advent of the aircraft carrier, involved so many fresh and incalculable factors...
Together with the honors tutorial program initiated last year for juniors, the new seminar system represents the University's most promising educational development since the advent of General Education more than a decade ago. Both last year's and this year's innovations move Harvard education beyond the predominant, formal course system, which can often stunt intellectual interest by Procrustean requirements...
...Germanys was growing, the gap between Catholics and Protestants was closing. In Munich Kirchentag delegates found themselves in the heart of Catholic Germany. It was the largest body of Protestants to descend on Munich since the armies of Gustavus Adolphus captured the city in 1632, and their advent was a great success. Munich's Joseph Cardinal Wendel took in Danish Bishop Frode Beyer and his wife as house guests, and many a Catholic family followed the cardinal's example. All over the city, for the Kirchentag's five days, Catholics and Protestants explored areas of common religious...
...With the advent of short skirts, high heels and Dutch Teddy boys from the mainland, public cuddling became more basic. On one wild night last winter, 500 youngsters, many of them drunk, rioted on the main street. Pubs thereafter were ordered closed at 10 o'clock on Saturday nights. This ended neither the boozing nor the love-making on the dike. Last week Urk's irked elders cracked down. A new Urk law made it a crime to "trudge, slouch, lounge, saunter, flock together" or "to sit or lie" after dark along public roads. Maximum penalty: a fine...