Word: breadths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rich deep black alluvial soil" of Mississippi, Faulkner created a darker earth: Yoknapatawpha County, a fictional fief 2,400 square miles in breadth and two centuries in depth, veined with the spilled blood of successive owners-the Indians, the Spanish, the French for a moment in time, then the Anglo-Saxons, "roaring with Protestant scripture and boiled whisky, changing the face of the earth: felling a tree which took 200 years to grow, in order to extract from it a bear or a capful of wild honey...
...wall themselves of into separate groups in terms of their own sets of prejudices and interests," Bender admitted, generalizing on the various group personalities he has observed: "My general impression is that boys with athletic abilities and interests tend to be more broad-minded and have a greater breadth of interests than members of other groups. The self-conscious intellectuals, for example, tend to be more narrow and in their interests, and are usually more arrogant in their approach to problems than are the athletes...
David D. Oakes '63 has been awarded the Joseph Garrison Parker prize, consisting of books, for the undergraduate with unusual breadth of interest outside the specifically pre-medical courses...
...committees dropped was Councillor Alfred Vellucci's on Roads and Bridges. The committee hadn't reported out a bill for months, but Vellucci exploded. Since then he has been furiously engaged in revenging himself; with characteristic breadth of vision, he has flaunted the new rules and generally made a nuisance of himself at Council meetings...
Columbia, long a leader in the breadth and excellence of its language programs, began offering Swahili for the first time this year, and has established its own program in African studies--one of the first universities to do so without government support...