Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With every ounce of gold and every dollar she could lay her hands on, Britain's reserves stood at only about $2.6 billion. If they fell to $1 billion, Britain would be too broke to act as banker for the sterling bloc, which might then fall apart. And gold and dollars were running off at a hemorrhagic rate of $200 million a month...
...Last fall, hardy Turkish diggers hacked their way into a dense, bandit-ridden forest in southern Anatolia. There they discovered a Hittite royal palace with lines of two-headed stone bulls. Among the bulls the diggers found the long-sought key: 30 stones with parallel inscriptions in Hittite hieroglyphics and early Phoenician, a translatable Semitic language. The first words the ancient language spoke to modern scholars (self-praise by King Asitawandas, servant of Baal) were not particularly interesting, but the hieroglyphic code was broken. Scholars were sure that other inscriptions, now readable, would tell them the story of the Sons...
...address sponsored by the Harvard Teachers Union, Matthiessen made remarks on political, social, and intellectual activities as he found them in the Czech capital and at Charles University, where he spent the fall as a visiting lecturer on American literature...
...recording with his camera all the grisly things he can find. At this point, the movie opens, with the arrival of a young woman just out of prison (Viviane Romance) who makes such an impression on the depressed M. Heer that he gives up his macabre photographic exploits to fall in love again. The unfortunate thing is that the girl has come home to live with the small-time crook for whom she took a jail sentence...
Final grades for the fall term will be given out to all undergraduates at Memorial Hall next Monday, February 16, on the following schedule...