Word: firstness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goldberg's staff has compiled a list of all department grants from and contracts with the Federal government. The list does not contain any classified information, but this is the first time all the government grants and contracts have been put together in one package...
Burgess completed 12 of 19 passes for 146 yards and came through on several crucial plays under pressure to give the Bruins their first Ivy League win of the season and first over Harvard in ten years. His performance moved him into sixth place among league passers-just ahead of the Crimson's Dave Smith...
Kell has been a surprise and coach Carm Cozza said that he was the outstanding defensive player in the Bulldogs' triumph over Brown. Kell is also largely responsible for Yale's great success in stopping Cornell's Ed Marinaro. His jarring tackle in the first quarter injured Marinaro, who was ineffective thereafter and finally taken...
Blaine's talk focused on two large groups of young people- "the dropouts and the violent ones." The first group, he said, "are dropping out completely from established society and using harmful drugs regularly." The other group, meanwhile, "is using violent means in an attempt to destroy the structure of [universities]." Blaine subjected both groups to psychological scrutiny in his speech...
Blaine offered two major explanations for the dropouts desire to take risks. The first was the affluence of American society: "Young people brought up in a world where everything has come easily to them begin to long for challenge and they cast about for risks to take . . . ." The other came right from Freud: hippies act like "infants and children [who] demand instant gratification . . . demanding from drugs an instant and constant happiness." They are immature people, for "if maturity comes, it brings with it the capacity to tolerate some present pain in order to achieve a greater pleasure at some later...