Word: curtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...average at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Ronald Koval of Dover, N.J., knew that he faced tough competition when he applied for admission to medical school back in 1965. So he was not surprised when each of his eight applications was rejected, one with a curt note wishing him success in another field. But Koval refused to abandon his ambition to become a doctor. For the past seven years, he has been studying at Belgium's Free University of Brussels, and next month he will finally receive his M.D. degree...
...only official comment on the case thus far was a curt acknowledgement Monday by an assistant special agent in the FBI's Boston office, Vincent H. Rueul, that Gill had indeed worked for the Bureau in the late 1960s...
...Curt. That crisis was heightened last week by dramatic-and so far unsubstantiated-charges made by a convicted Watergate conspirator. James W. McCord Jr., the former security coordinator of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, testified that some of Nixon's closest advisers were fully aware of the plan for the breakin and bugging of Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington's Watergate complex last June and had approved of it. In the face of such charges, Republican Congressmen as well as many G.O.P. stalwarts in all walks of life were highly critical of Nixon...
...championship season, finished a surprising second behind Yale at last year's meet in New Haven but is the favorite again this winter. The Tigers, despite losing to Yale and Dartmouth, have some of the best individual talent in the East in freestyler-backstroker Charlie Campbell and distance freestyler Curt Haydon...
CHEMISTRY 20, Harvard's only introductory organic chemistry course, bounced the 11 per cent of its enrollees who received Ds or Es last semester. The course's "sympathetic" instructors apologized with a curt "We're sorry if this ruins any of your career plans." Organic chemistry is the most important of the five courses (the others include biology, physics, math, and an inorganic chemistry course) required for entrance to medical school. An A in Chem 20 virtually insures one of this nation's scarce med school places, an unsatisfactory grade virtually insures rejection...