Word: breadths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mark 11 new towns, must overcome two main problems. According to the New Towns Act, the Ministry can establish public corporations "to acquire, hold, manage, and dispose of land and other property, to carry out any business or undertaking in or for the purpose of the new town." The breadth of the corporational mandate usually alienates local politicians. They resent the intrusion of highly educated administrators and architects into their districts. And since the corporation must consult local authorities at each planning stage, fierce fights often occur. For example at Hemel Hempstead the local residents brought the Ministry into court...
...human disease. Of almost equal importance, says Davidson, is Uriel, archangel of salvation, often credited with warning Noah of the Flood. Despite their hierarchical importance, none of these four is the largest angel: that honor, according to the Zohar, goes to Metatron, whose height was equal to the breadth of the world-although other angelic experts insist that Aupiel was several hundred parasangs larger...
...Durants, the writing of history is an art that requires more than facts or perspective; it demands eloquence. In evocative power, breadth-and breathlessness-the opening sentence of their new book is hard to beat...
...princely Orsinis and the Torlonias. In 1651, after the end of the Thirty Years' War in Germany, Schönfeld returned to his homeland and settled in Augsburg, where he married and built a home. Before his death in 1682 or 1683, he traveled the length and breadth of Mitteleuropa, executing hundreds of canvases and murals for castles and monasteries in Munich, Salzburg, Vienna, Bohemia, and Hungary...
...Vietnam is hampered by conditions that originate in war, underdevelopment and custom. There are few resources for research or for teacher improvement and few exceptions to the dominant teaching method of lectures which become student's notes and the subjects of annual examinations. As a result there is little breadth to teaching styles and the process, to a great extent, has become predictable, uniform, and for the student unexciting. Accomplishment, for the student, is almost totally in terms of passing examinations; there exist too few opportunities to analyze or compare ideas, to discover meaning for oneself, or to create anew...