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Word: chaires (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large expenditure for the Seferis chair might have caused Caramanlis embarrassment at the time...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: Renowned Greek Scholar Fills Vacant Position In Classics Department | 9/21/1977 | See Source »

...committee also sent letters asking for recommendations to scholars throughout the world, and all but one selected Savides as the best candidate to fill the post, Sevcenko said. Harvard received $1 million from the Greek government in 1975 to establish a chair in memory of the Greek poet, George Seferis, who died six years...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: Renowned Greek Scholar Fills Vacant Position In Classics Department | 9/21/1977 | See Source »

...have done that." Residents condemned the boulders as "a public nuisance"; businessmen protested that they could become hiding places for muggers and targets for graffiti addicts. One citizen suggested the city return the rocks and consider his $99.95 offer for the junk in his basement, including "one used potty-chair, a tricycle with no handle bars, one broken ski, an old doorknob and six bags of leaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Throwing Rocks Around in Hartford | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

Radner accepted the department's offer last spring of the Taussig Professor of Economics chair, which funds one year of research with only limited teaching obligations...

Author: By Payne L. Templeton, | Title: Well-Known Economist To Teach | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

Silverman lavishes care and energy on casting his characters. Watching tests, he will say, "I hate her, she's terrible. Roll ?next, next!" Or he will leap from his chair and shout, "That's her!" In his eyes, characters do not even have to be human. He will spend just as much time listening to a shark's voice for a children's cartoon as he will in discussing stars for a big-budget show in prime time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man with the Golden Gut | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

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