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...sport became more popular, women began competing against men in the 1920s in swims across the English Channel, which was considered the most challenging event at the time. This changed women’s swimwear from heavy wool skirts to slimmer one-pieces and ultimately to the bikini, as a compact suit helped minimize chafing during the grueling swims, which lasted 17 hours or more...
While presenting honorary degrees to newly tenured members of FAS who had not graduated from Harvard—a practice dating back to 1942—Faust began to read aloud a traditional Latin motto from a piece of paper...
...began, hesitating as she turned to Classics Professor Richard F. Thomas. Faust then proceeded to deliver the full translation of the traditional welcome, which reads, "in order that he/she may be counted among our flock," and Thomas approved the translation...
Although Melton is now known for his study of the pancreas and stem cells, he began his career examining frogs and embryonic development...
...This year it is strikingly familiar. Mandile, the owner of a Massachusetts small business that manufactures high-precision screw-machine products, never nurtured political ambitions. But in March 2009, upset with the direction of the nascent Obama Administration, he registered on a website listing Tea Party events and began sending out e-mail blasts. The Worcester Tea Party, for whom Mandile serves as president, now counts more than 700 members on its distribution list, the vast majority of them political newcomers like Mandile himself. Groups like his have become the nexus of political disaffection, where deficit hawks, constitutional conservatives, federalists...