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Word: certainly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compensate for the additional time which the second weekly meeting will require, the experimental groups will meet only during certain times of the year--from the last week in September to the first in December, and from the first week in February to the third in March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Experimental Sections in Gen Ed A Will Have Two Classes Each Week | 9/29/1959 | See Source »

...reinforcements, he might still have won. But he ordered the regiments available (some 4,000 men) to charge; the British held, then advanced. Their 32-year-old general, attired in a splendid new uniform and waving a cane, was an easy target for snipers. Just before victory was certain he fell, a musket ball through his lung. (Hours later, the Marquis de Montcalm also died of his wounds.) It was. Author Hibbert says, the death Wolfe always wanted; months before, he had written in a clumsy paraphrase of Horace: "Those who perish in their duty and in the service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Smell of Powder | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

Since it is almost certain that at least a large portion of the new grants would be allocated to other Schools, more vocal faculty concern with Harvard's participation in the loan program would seem to be indicated. "With the failure of Senator Kennedy's bill, the matter again is becoming one for faculty debate, rather than administrative detail," one highly placed University officer has stated...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: Growing Concern Evidenced Over NDEA Loan Program Loyalty Oath | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...Advocate starts out the year with an interesting assortment of pieces, some written with facility, none brilliant, but none without a certain basic competence. The fiction this issue has the advantage of attracting immediate interest, of relating a coherent story, unlike so many other previous pieces which may represent experiments in style, but which are virtually impossible to get through...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: The Advocate | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...developed effectively, as are the main problems of the story--the uselessness of the parents' lives, and the quietly savage intensity of the boy's attempt to escape the "mortality" of his parents' existence. The main difficulty with The Flavour of Mortality is a jerkiness of structure, a certain abruptness in exposition, which is occasionally annoying, but which does not obscure the formidable talent beneath...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: The Advocate | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

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