Word: areas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...studying imperishable artifacts left by these prehistoric men and remains of plant and animal life of the time, Movius' group concluded that the first inhabitants of Arbi-Pataud--as it is called--lived there year-round in a cold temperate climate. The second group migrated to and from the area on an annual basis as the climate became sub-artic...
Periodically over the centuries, the area known as the Borinage gives a twitch of excruciating pain, and all Belgium suffers. Death has always been close by in that flat, depressing southern region...
...many Houses, tutor-student dinners have won enthusiastic praise. At Kirkland, for example, seven undergraduates and three tutors get together over sherry and a served meal in the private dining room. These small area dinners offer "another line of faculty-student communication," said Taylor, "and they give us a lot for our money...
Lowell House uses a slightly different approach. Instead of area dinners, tutors from four different fields each invite two students preferably not their own tutees. Instead of a dinner-table tutorial, there is, hopefully, a mixing of interests. "These meetings often last until 9 or 10," Perkins noted. Winthrop is another of the Houses which sponsors regular tutor-student dinners, and Master Owen observed that "Ford would be surprised to know how much of his money goes for sherry...
...afterthought, turned out to be the critical factor. During the summer it was determined in that spherical satellites also behaved in the same peculiar fashion as the cylindrical satellites. By late September Jacchia had discovered some periodicity in the acceleration of Sputnik II and ruled out change in presentation area of the satellite as a factor. He wrote...