Word: duel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cherington seemed almost eager for a "little intellectual duel" with some of his 'A' Radcliffe students, but he claims that in class, they just concentrate on looking dumb in the back row. Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, echoed Cherington's wish that Radcliffe girls would argue with and challenge their professors more. "Both Harvard and Radcliffe students are orderly, docile, and peaceful compared to the Russian 'revolutionary' students...
...Harvard Debate Council will engage England's University of Cambridge in a forensic duel tonight at 8 p.m. in the New Lecture Hall...
...basis of comparative records, Coach Bob Pickett's squad rates as a slight underdog in today's contest. Army beat Brown, but the Bruins made their match with the Cadets a closer duel than the Crimson...
...Duel...
Never in really good health since 1936, Stalin had a bad heart attack at Potsdam, Budu says. In addition, he suffers from asthma and insomnia. He was in a state of collapse after the Yalta Conference, where, says Budu again, the "Churchill-Stalin vodka-drinking duel had been bad for him." "I'm younger than Churchill," he said, "and I don't admit his superiority even in the matter of how much alcohol we can take." From about that time, Budu implies, the Soviet Union has been run pretty much by the Molotov-Malenkov axis, even though Stalin...