Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing he wanted in his Australian hideaway was the publicity of a lottery hit. Even so, the $28,000 would have been nice. Biggs' $265,000 share of the train lolly was all gone. Before he disappeared, he had been living like any other struggling householder on the block...
...separates gentlemen from others. Now the Labor Party wants to send all children to comprehensive schools-and many middle-class parents are aghast. If grammar schools go, they charge, their children will have to mix with academic and social inferiors. Seizing the issue, the Conservative Party has vowed to block the Labor plan, especially if the Tories win Britain's forthcoming national elections...
Only last August an HEW expert, Dr. Gregory Anrig, submitted plans for each of the school districts that he described as "educationally and administratively sound both in terms of substance and in terms of timing." Why did the Government decide to block those plans this year? Leonard says that it was because HEW needs additional time to study and perhaps refine them. Another report, by William E. Cresswell, former administrative assistant to Senator John Stennis, claims that the Nixon Administration traded a delay in desegregation for Stennis' vote on its ABM approval (TIME, Sept...
Legal jurisdiction over students in the Houses is the major legal stumbling block. The Faculty of Ar's and Sciences now has no legal authority over Radcliffe students outside the classroom...
...should see their letter in its true light: a very windy piece of liberal rhetoric, supported not by argument but by unjustified claims to special authority (including such excathedra pronouncements as "The term 'Third World' is, incidentally, a stumbling block rather than an aid to understanding..."). It indeed is "an offense to a community of truth-seekers" and is a good indication that more is at stake at Harvard than truth...