Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the first half, both teams seemed rather hesitant to take the offensive. Dartmouth, playing its first game of the season, was not quite coordinated enough to move the ball well. Harvard, fighting a strong wind, was content to concentrate on its defense...
...three officers of the Department of Air Science are responding to this need for an increased theoretical content in the curriculum. Already they have beefed up the elementary text-books with selections from such varied writers as Henry Kissinger, Mao-Tse-Tung, and assorted Rand Corporation analysts. Next year Col. Lyman will introduce special seminars for those cadets particularly interested in the latest developments in Air Force strategic thought...
...next year, originally set at $4.9 billion. As it turned out, the President was willing to go part way with Clay. Dropping in at a meeting of the Magazine Publishers Association, he confided that his foreign aid message this week would request $4.7 billion, and that he would be content if he ended up with $4.4 billion...
...James Briggs, 88, director of the National Bureau of Standards from 1933 until his retirement in 1945, a physicist of scope and versatility who devised the earth inductor compass, a navigation boon that Charles Lindbergh used on his transatlantic flight, developed the centrifuge method for classifying soils by moisture content, and helped lead the U.S. into nuclear physics as chairman of the Uranium Committee (forerunner of the Manhattan Project); of a heart attack; in Washington...
...signed up the next week for Humanities 119--The Narrative Art--a course Van Doren devised in his last years at Columbia. Some say it is the best course they've ever taken, others that it is the loudest of the roaring guts. Whatever the consensus, the style and content of the course tell a great deal about this man who taught at Morningside Heights for almost 40 years and published close to 30 volumes of poetry, fiction, and criticism...