Word: establishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Undergraduate Council is circulating a poll to establish new parietals: noon to midnight every day with an extension to 1 a.m. on Saturdays. These parietals would bring a qualitative change in the House system and Harvard life in general. It would be a change for the better...
Baring-Gould, who was a promotion writer at Time Inc. until his death last month, did his scholarly best to establish the limerick in early English tradition, with versions that reach back to the first modern lyric-"Sumer is icumen in"-but the classic limerick goes back no further than the work of Non sense Master Edward Lear, who, with British understatement, always wrote a clean, rug-pulling last line. Lear might have improved the popular appeal of his work if he had been able to follow the advice of Don Marquis on the proper quality of the limerick...
...meeting its high transportation costs and overhead with some $2 billion in subsidies from the federal government in Bonn. But Berlin's bridge to the East is less important for the money flowing back over it than as a symbol of the city's effort to re-establish itself as Western Europe's major economic crossroads on the route to Moscow and Eastern Europe...
...alarming increase in venereal disease-up 1,000% in West Hollywood in the past five years. As an alternative to the crash pads, San Francisco's church-financed Huckleberry's for Runaways provides "fugitives" with food and shelter while setting up channels through which they can re-establish relationships with their parents. Operating out of a Victorian house at 1 Broderick Street in the Haight-Ashbury district, Huckleberry's has handled 190 runaways since it was set up two months ago. Most of them, after counseling by four staff psychologists and 13 other volunteers, have gone home...
...argues Pike, is that man today is forced to create his own creeds and dogmas on the empirical basis of what can be proved factually. In line with his formula, he suggests that faith should start not with speculations about God but with the "relevant data" that man can establish about his own existence. Citing the examples of such diverse figures as Christ, Socrates and Unitarian Minister James Reeb, who was bludgeoned to death at Selma in 1965, Pike argues that man can transcend his "occupation of a limited space-time continuum" by his impact on others. In other words...