Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Committee thought the books in order, but said the membership roll included 242 more names than the total included on the role in Dean Watson's office. The Committee, not one of whom had a Harvard College background, felt that the predisposition "to prevent a presumption of innocence on behalf of any accused HYRC member" hampered their investigation...
...teaching a girl on the verge of settling down to becoming an old maid something about the power of faith in dreams. All this, including the symbolism involved, comes dangerously close to banality--but without ever once touching it, because Nash knows when to keep his symbols in the background and let the story speak for itself...
...Tour would have been only 27. St. Louis' City Art Museum's Young Man with Pipe, recently acquired for $28,000, dates from La Tour's mid-40s when he had fully developed his technique of molding his figures with light, setting them against a background of elemental night...
Conant, who recently resigned as U.S. Ambassador to West Germany, will draw on his background as an educator and on his experiences in dealing with Russian Communist officials during his nearly four years in Germany...
There is, however, a need for some further changes by the department. Ec 1 at present fails to utilize a valuable resource--mathematical background--that many of its students possess. Of fundamental importance in many fields of higher economics, mathematics can be successfully utilized at the elementary levels also. The department should set up special section within Ec 1 for those students with preparation in math...