Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dean is reluctant to push the Faculty too hard for reforms. When Dean Ford says that the CEP cannot push any harder for the HPC's recommendations, then he is either against those proposals himself or he does not want to risk a Faculty reaction to "too much too fast." Students should exert greater pressure on departments to back the measures. On the whole, Harvard's Administration is pro-student while the Faculty is more reluctant to change things...
...Shapiros are not unusual. Nor do they naturally read so fast. They learned this revolutionary technique of rapid reading at the Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics Institute . . . along with more than 6000 other persons in the Boston-Providence Area. Of these, the average student begins at about 300 words a minute and finishes at speeds over 1200 words a minute...
...learn to read quite as fast as The Shapiros (and then again you might!), but the nationally known Reading Dynamics Institute guarantees that you'll at least triple your reading efficiency with good comprehension -- or receive a full tuition refund...
Offering everything from garden tools to groceries to girdles at discount prices, the new complex will be the latest of 30 White Front stores that Interstate has strung through California. It will also be the showplace of a fast-growing nationwide retailing chain that now numbers 114 stores, including Topps stores through the East and Midwest and toy-selling Children's Supermart stores in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, as well as 31 conventional department stores in 12 states...
...past students have been forced to bear only part of their university's rising costs. Other sources of revenue--government assistance, endowment income, and private gifts--have grown fast enough to keep student fees down...