Word: annexed
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...college journalists were busily putting together that masterpiece of the communications world known as the Herald-Crimson. Neglecting their studies, they composed rondos on the summer's passing, analyzed the progress of the football, the baseball, and the tug of war tennis, and conceded the success of the Harvard Annex, an "experiment entered into with fear and trembling...
...Annex Called 'Monumental Success...
...most perverse opponent of co-education and the higher education of women," they wrote, "cannot continue incredulous alter such monumental success as this has crowned the four years' effort of the Annex." "This" refers to the engagement of three undergraduates to their professors...
...Italy's economic boom, Milan has swelled in population by 24% in ten years. It boasts 37% of all Italian businesses, pays 24% of the nation's taxes, accounts for one-fifth of all its wages and salaries. To relieve its inevitable growing pains, Milan hopes to annex 94 surrounding communities, redevelop its crowded city center, build a complex of subways and expressways and expand housing, health services, schools and sanitation facilities. Once Milan decided on this ambitious course, the problem was where to borrow the money-and how to convince the rest of the world that Milan...
...Premiers. All this so impressed Louis XIV, the Sun King, that in 1682 he took over the place and declared "Ourself founder." The faculty, rendering unto Caesar, removed "Jesus" from the front door and put up "Ludovici Magni" (Louis-le-grand). The pleased king founded a foreign-language study annex in Constantinople and a scholarship fund that salvaged more talent, including Encyclopedist Denis Diderot and one Franç Marie Arouet, the talented son of a notary who later called himself Voltaire. "Everyone who carries a name in France has spent his early youth in Louis-le-grand," gloated the Archbishop...