Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former classmate of Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus, allow me to congratulate you for offering such a wonderful and true biography of the exiled archbishop [March...
...need to know all there is to know about the safety of the large power reactors before they build their own, were told nothing. A few weeks ago, rumors began to circulate, and the AEC was forced to issue a brief release. But the authorities at Arco would not allow outsiders to see the damaged reactor, and AEChairman Lewis Strauss denied that even the rumors had reached...
...summa, magna, and cum laude, --stem from awards given in the Middle Ages for the reading of theses or discourses. At present, however, a number of Harvard graduates get honors degrees without writing theses, through the program of Cum Laude in General Studies. While CLGS is often used to allow people with low marks as lowerclassmen to write theses, it also allows people with high marks to avoid this particular intellectual exercise. Given the original nature of honors, it seems a distortion to give them to people who do not write theses in fields in which they...
...Security Council to take action in Korea. Yet, in the Middle East, there is at least a fifty percent chance that Russia will agree to intervene through the United Nations. Should the Israelis initiate the attack, the Soviets might possibly agree to let the U.N. intervene, since it would allow the Russians themselves to send troops to the Gaza. Even though to let a Middle Eastern war run on unimpeded would be to permit their semi-allies, the Arabs, gradually to crush Israel, the chances are that the Russians would wish to intervene--without the Arab-Israeli balance of forces...
Cars and trucks would be excluded to prevent congestion. Six large parking areas and modern highways are planned to surround the center to allow easy access. Though the district will be a purely pedestrian area, Grulen says that there would rarely be more than a two minute walk to any building in the area from the nearest garage. Underground trucking roads and slow moving carts would eliminate the problems of moving heavy baggage and crates...