Word: cages
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Corporation yesterday voted to renovate Briggs Cage for use as a 3000-seat basketball facility and indoor practice field for baseball and lacrosse, Joe B. Wyatt, vice president for administration, said yesterday...
Taking longer than usual to begin generating the quick smooth moves to the cage that have become the team's offensive trademark, Harvard could secure only a 1-1 tie for the first quarter of play, before fully charging up to take command during the second stanza...
Ralf Dahrendorf, director of the London School of Economics, argues that the welfare state produces what German Sociologist Max Weber called "the iron cage of bureaucratic bondage." He admits that centralization and government activity in the modern economy are inevitable but stresses that in the future the burden of proof for turning over functions to the government must rest "on the centralizers and not the other way around...
Next Kortlandt put a sheep in a wire-mesh cage surrounded by thorn branches. This time, several hungry lionesses began pulling at the branches. But when thorns became lodged in their paw pads, they retreated to lick their wounds. That suggested early man could have protected himself on the savanna by building thorn-branch shelters. But could he survive long sieges? To find out, Kortlandt attached branches to a remote-controlled motor on a framework over chunks of meat. When lions approached, the branches spun as they might had they been brandished by man. The lions darted away...
With Ira and a woman friend, he makes his first trip to the zoo. "See what he does?" says Ira at the monkey cage. "Yeah!" says Philly. They move on to the tigers. "How do you like that?" Philly is excited and happy. "Yeah!" he answers. Back home he chatters happily with his mother about the outing, as a four-year-old child might do. Perception of Philly as a large, awkward child is a way for the viewer to think of him without horror. But he is not a child, and Wohl's film leads onlookers past this...