Word: eighteenth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Eighteenth century Londoners frequented Richard Sheridan's classroom of comedy to be taught their three Rs: the Risque, Rumor, Revenge. The APA go through their lessons with a flick of their wits...
...ought to be, without subjecting the patient's hand to radiation. The result, according to PHS tests, is a radiation dose delivered to the skin only one-half to one-fourth that from a recommended standard machine. Radiation to the cornea of the eye is reduced to one-eighteenth...
Brown's victory, its eighteenth straight in Ivy competition, gave the Bruins the championship with a record of seven wins and no losses. Harvard came in second, with six wins including a 4-1 triumph over Yale Friday. Its only loss was to Brown...
...types of space are best for concentrated studying. Ideally, one should be totally alone, buried in books. The depths of Widener are close to perfect, and Kirkland's creaky eighteenth-century library is good on a light-to-medium day. Such facilities can handle only a limited number of students, however, and the next best thing is a room so large that no single person is distracting. In Lamont, a small stall partition is enough to isolate the student from the rest of the room...
That doctrine rests firmly on the basis of eighteenth century Newtonian science. According to that conception, there are certain laws in nature which man can learn through experiment. For Rusk, the experience at Munich in 1938 represents a "laboratory exercise in the anatomy and physiology of aggression" from which certain "eternal truths" emerged, namely, that "aggression" must be stopped by force. Modern scientific thought would hardly call its laws "eternal truths," yet Rusk continues to pride himself on the scientific nature of his thinking...