Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overrun by the Nazis in World War II, and spent the postwar years futilely trying to put down a succession of colonial revolts, while at home governments fell and Premiers came and went amid the clamor of scuffling Deputies in the National Assembly. Only fading memories remained of the ancient days when the lily banners of the French kings triumphed from one end of Europe to the other, or when the Revolutionary Tricolor struck terror on every continent...
...always looking for ways to improve the Houses," Trottenberg said. But he added that "there is a limit to how much can be done to improve these ancient buildings...
...convenience the first ten symbols may be recombined for numbers greater than nine. He may also learn that each digit (say in 326) has a "place value" ten times that of its neighbor to the right (three hundreds, two tens, six ones). He discovers the wonder of that great ancient invention, zero, the "place holder" that allows infinite expansions (606 would be simply 66 without...
...other Senior Fellows are Walter Jackson Bate '39, Lowell Professor of the Humanities, Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, Paul M. Doty, professor of Chemistry, Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Leo Professor of Economics, Harry Levis '33, Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, physicist Edward M. Purcell, Gade University Professor, and Willard Van Orman Quine, Pierce Professor of Philosophy...
...inconsistency of a brutal penal code in an enlightened society has long troubled civilized men from the days of ancient Greece to the present era of movements against capital punishment. The Ceremony is a gripping indictment of this inconsistency, and one of the best American movies to come to Boston in a number of months...