Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...split into 27 faculty sheikdoms. He organized an overriding ten-man "cabinet," including four vice chancellors. He launched a "vertical reorganization of the disciplines"-Litch-fieldese for uniting humanities, natural and social science as units serving all levels of the university. He weighed and tested the faculty for academic content, found one-third (250) substandard, including 16% with only a B.A. degree. The "low" men got no more raises. Today, with a 19% bigger faculty, 38% higher pay, and the first sabbaticals ever, only 42 profs are under par. The others, as one official put it succinctly, "shaped...
...coin was large (1⅝in. diameter), and among Arabs and Africans, who prize ample women, the profile of the Empress' thrusting decolletage was almost as ap pealing as the thaler's 23.4-gram silver content. So great was the demand for the coin that even after Maria Theresa's death the Vienna mint continued to make thalers, which, to convince untutored natives of their authenticity, were stamped 1780, the year the Empress died. Decade after decade, thalers continued to tinkle at bazaars from Istanbul to Yemen. Islamic missionaries carried the coins into Africa, where traders used...
...Archangels Gabriel and Michael, Twain pictures man as the foolish and conceited victim of his own preposterous religious beliefs. Coming from manuscripts dated in the last few years before Twain's death in 1910, the book was pieced together by the late Bernard DeVoto in 1939. But the content so disturbed Twain's Christian Scientist daughter, Mrs. Clara Clemens Samossoud, now 88, that she refused to allow publication because she felt the essays presented "a distorted view" of her father's ideas. It took 23 years before she finally agreed that "Mark Twain belonged to the world...
...leaders of West Berlin last week cautioned their citizens to commemorate the first year of the ugly Communist Wall with "meditation" rather than demonstrations. But many stubborn Wrest Berliners were not content simply to meditate when anniversary day arrived...
...content with ordinary restaurants, Holiday Inns is planning to build tenstory inns in downtown locations, each with a revolving restaurant on the roof...