Word: annually
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...much ado about little. The of fice at stake was Oxford's chair of poetry, which, as one commentator observed, offers "no power, little work and less money." Robert Graves, the retiring incumbent, picked up the annual $980 the professorship provides by delivering three lectures within eight weeks last year. Reason: for tax purposes, Graves is registered as a company in Liechtenstein and can only spend three months a year in Britain. Neither of this year's candidates-American Robert Lowell and Briton Edmund Blunden-bothered to campaign for the seat...
...Shah Pahlevi's three-year-old "White Revolution" (so called because it has been bloodless), a grand design that is intended to wrest Iran from the middle ages into modern industrialized society. Having laid the groundwork through extensive land reforms and a massive literacy drive and aided by annual oil royalties worth more than $500 million and an influx of $2 billion in foreign investment capital, the Shah has launched his country headlong into what is far and away the Middle East's fastest-moving, most ambitious development program. From broad, modern boulevards in Teheran to the effusion...
Northwestern University won a narrow decision against Georgetown University in the final round of the thirteenth annual Harvard Debate Tournament, held February 3-5. Although the two Harvard teams disqualified themselves from the final rounds, both teams posted 6-2 records in the preliminary debates. Thomas C. Fritsache '63 placed fifth in individual debating points. The tournament was attended by 122 teams, the largest turnout in its history...
Working with an annual budget of $1 million, the Center's permanent staff of seven will study rhesus monkeys, sebus monkeys, and shrews. All members of this staff will be from the Medical School and the College...
Last year Princeton jumped to a 4-1 lead before Jack Barnaby's boys started their annual comeback. In the crucial match, Crimson senior Bill Morris battled back from a 2-1, 13-9, deficit to edge Princeton's Burt Gay. Needless to say, Harvard won again...