Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grave" because of Sierra Leone's hordes of malaria-bearing mosquitos, said that among the honors would be a Medal of the Mosquito, for conspicuous gallantry. Why? Because the vicious little pests prevented white men from permanently settling in the area and thus forestalled the creation of another Rhodesia...
Coming at the end of the inaugural year of Bok's machinery for achieving shareholder responsibility--a student-faculty-alumni ACSR, advising a four-member Corporation subcommittee--the announcement is nicely symbolic. For the shift in Harvard's shareholder policy, purportedly stemming from the creation of the ACSR and rooted in black students' occupation of Mass Hall last April, actually goes back to Bok's first year in office and therefore indirectly to an earlier militant action, the April 1969 seizure of University Hall that led to Harvard's greatest strike and hastened Pusey's departure...
...same ground but in an entirely different manner. His account of life with father appeals to the reader like a very private and surprisingly artful home movie. Facts are often blurred or underexposed. The plausible dissolves into the incredible. Yet the effect is undeniable: a unique re-creation of what it was like for a boy to grow up surrounded by events and emotions he could not-and still cannot-fully understand...
...recent nomination of a sociologist was as follows: 13 opposed, 8 in favor, 3 abstaining; but of the 13 opposed, 5 were professors of Historical Studies. (b)At the meeting at which the nomination was voted down, the faculty passed a motion which read "The faculty supports the creation of a strong program in social science", by the following vote: 15 in favor, 2 opposed, 6 abstaining. (c)The present professor of Social Science, Geertz, was appointed after a faculty vote in which there was no opposition. (d)Of the 17 members of the faculty of 27 who have publicly...
Short Supply. The dwarf clinic, now marking its second anniversary, is the creation of Dr. David Rimoin, a U.C.L.A. geneticist and one of the world's leading authorities on dwarfism. Rimoin believes that the condition (which occurs once in every 10,000 births in the U.S.) is almost universally misunderstood, largely because so few doctors have taken the trouble to learn about it. Says he: "To most doctors, all dwarfs look alike...