Word: brigham
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...found an application for Brigham Young University, the Mormon school in Provo, Utah, and sent it in "because it wasn't expensive." She was accepted, and borrowed $200 from her grandmother to get there. Her favorite class was art. Jill thought she could be "one of the great ones, painting masterpieces." The students were told to draw a barn, and the results were displayed. Jill checked them out, feeling more confident about her own gifts as she went along. Then she saw one "that shook me like wheels spinning. It was art, far better than mine. It showed...
Smith started with the belief that true Christianity, corrupted for 18 centuries, would be restored by his "Latter Day Saints." The most substantial result is a 4.3 million-member church based in Salt Lake City, created by Smith's successor Brigham Young and famed both for prosperity and for two practices that it eventually discarded: polygamy and a ban on blacks in church offices...
Exactly a decade ago this spring, none of this was very obvious. Marshall's denunciations of the University of Washington's athletic links with Brigham Young University, a Mormon school that was accused of racism, helped provoke a nasty riot. Seattle Liberation Front and Black Student Union supporters surged off on a rampage through eleven campus buildings. They did little damage, but they roughed up some innocent bystanders and frightened others. Many carried pipes, chains and clubs. "Revolution" was Marshall's own word for this ominous wave of the future, but other rhetorical staples...
Beth Israel Hospital may join Affiliated Hospitals, Inc., which includes the Robert Breck Brigham Hospital, the Hospital for Women and the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital...
...grant is a continuation of programs funded at MGH for the past five years, and Dr. Edgar Haber, chief of the cardiac unit at the hospital said yesterday he hopes the additional money and the new researchers from Brigham Hospital will lead to "a better understanding of coronary disease and how we can help coronary patients...