Word: alma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...treaty ending hostilities, some changes are appearing. Tourists wearing yarmulkes are visiting the pyramids, new high-rises spike the Cairo sky line, and signs hawking familiar brand names reflect increased Western business investment. The reopened Suez Canal is earning rich transit fees, and Egyptian engineers have taken over Alma, the largest of the oilfields being given up by the Israelis in the course of their three-year withdrawal from the Sinai...
...seems that your critical interpretations of donations should not go out of the Yahd. While Princetonians give generously to their alma mater, there is a reason: the world and the future. Yes, there is more to life than that which occurs between the Crimson goalposts. And no Princetonian has ever narrowed his view and his allegiance to the football field. Nor are their ties limited to the scope of the class notes in the Princeton Alumni Weekly. For dressed in tweeds and argyles, the alumni cherish their university...
Although Gatto is quite content with his position at Tufts he said, "Everyone expects me to go back to Harvard to coach." And while he admits that "everyone thinks about working at his Alma Mater," he considers Restic "one of the best coaches in the country who won't leave Harvard unless he gets a Pro offer that he wants...
...this is a Bruin plot to make Scalise feel guilty about having coached his team to a 3-0 drubbing of his alma mater in last year's championship so that the Crimson will ease up this year, it won't work...
...than grueling research that might benefit mankind later, a decision no doubt reinforced by the fact that the social sciences are frequently not so intellectually taxing as scientific research. A similar attitude has led to attacks on such training grounds for young scientists as Glashow and Weinberg's alma mater, the Bronx High School of Science, which has been called "elitist" for insisting on tough admissions standards...