Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student revolt took two significant turns at major universities last week. At Cornell, guns were used for the first time in the seizure of a building. At Harvard, the faculty gave Negro students a voice in selection of black studies professor ... the faculty, under pressure from black students broke with one of the basic traditional principles. It voted to give students a major voice--six undergraduates to seven professors--in the selection of teachers for the new Afro-American Studies Department." The article goes on to suggest that the resolution was "fuzzy", and that the faculty was abrogating its responsibilities...
...second match, against Bowdoin, was another runaway. Leland Faust netted five goals and also broke up a number of scoring attempts by the Polar Bears as Harvard...
Born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1888, of Italian parents, Ungaretti was in his twenties before World War I broke out. He wrote his first poems in the trenches of Carso, on the French border, and published Il Porto Sepolto (The Submerged Seaport) in 1916. These earliest poems, laconic and unpunctuated, implied from the beginning a break with d'Annunzio and the traditions of Italian poetry. Glauco Cambon's study of Ungaretti in the Columbia series recalled the war poems as "flashes of insight bursting through the shell of established prosodic convention to capture the immediacy of inner experience." And Ungaretti...
...sprinkler system had gone off at the same time as the alarm. When the men entered the room, there were no flames. Some furniture and papers were smoldering, and there was a lot of smoke. The policemen broke a window and threw charred maps, books, and a podium outside. Three fire engines, a ladder truck, and a rescue car arrived at 4:43 a.m. Moriarty said the police looked for fingerprints...
...first time since 1963 that Harvard has lost to another college crew. The loss broke the victory streak that extended through 34 consecutive starts against collegiate competition...