Word: calendar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Two Years? Thus, with smoky partisan hostility, the House of Commons last week marked a calendar occasion: it was just six months since the Conservatives' return to power in Britain. Winston Churchill had said on taking office that his regime could not be fairly judged for at least three years, but Britons in local elections were making their provisional judgments earlier-and adversely. Many Tories now concede that if an election were held tomorrow, Labor would probably win. The notion that captured some Tories in the first flush of election victory, that they could make things better...
...start his sophomore course, Hogben goes back again to the early days of human intellectual development. The first body of scientific knowledge that most cultures accumulated was data on the calendar (the apparent motion of the sun) and on the motion of the planets. So human astronomers should first work out the dates of such events as they are experienced on Mars. Sent across space in the language of numbers as "interplanetary news items," they should be easily recognized by the Martians...
Petitions circulating at Radcliffe for a two day vacation between terms received a serious setback last night. The Student Council registered its approval of the administration's new academic calendar with only a one-day layoff, and at the same time quashed proposed support the Annex motion...
With the revised calendar, the academic year will be shortened by one full week, although the total number of study hours remain unchanged. Commencement will fall one week earlier in the year, putting Harvard on approximately the same schedule as other universities and colleges...
...Radcliffe petition was scheduled for a Council hearing last night, but was automatically dismissed when the Council approved the administration's calendar. The petition stated that under the new schedule there would not be enough time for "recuperation from the strain of exams...