Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Religion lost its dominant position on the key corner of the Square in 1833, when the old meeting house was razed and Dane Law College, the first Harvard Law School, appeared on its foundations. The law era lasted some sixty years, but as the University grew in wealth, the bursars office inevitably took precedence. Lehman Hall now almost obscures a small, grey tombstone, marking the site of the old meeting house, and the rattle of the subway drowns any echo of the days when Puritan preachers poured out fire and brimstone in the Square...
...have at least a bachelor's degree in science or engineering, and he must speak English. But simple as those requirements sound, each man is carefully selected by his own government and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission to carry out the task of opening up a whole new era to his country. "Most of these students," says the school's director, Norman Hilberry, "are from countries just getting into this sort of work. What we are trying to do is to give them a feeling for and the knowledge necessary to make a successful start in making peaceful...
...however, what courses Freidel would teach. At Stanford, he teaches "The Age of Big Business, 1877-1919," and an introductory course in United States History, as well as a course specifically on the Roosevelt era. He has published "Francis Lieber, 19th Century Liberal," a biography of an authority on political philosophy and military...
...Congratulations on your excellent coverage of the moving statement by Dr. Pike ... There is growing recognition that the era of censorship on statements endorsing planned parenthood is over; this message by a leader in one of America's most respected church groups will give new courage and vision to many Americans . . MARY MORAIN...
...across to the Russians that NATO and all other arrangements under which American forces provide a shield for smaller countries are vital to western defense (and to defense only). Meanwhile the western people themselves have to be reminded that the Communist objective is, and was throughout the Malenkov era, nothing less than domination of a Eurasia uncluttered by American presence or American power...