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Word: generality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Certainly, a convict should be stopped from killing again, but because the brain is so complex, even the most exact psychosurgery can only identify a general area associated with killing and hope that by destroying cells in that area one will also destroy potential killing impulses. But it might not work...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: A Mental Block | 6/7/1978 | See Source »

...group will include a three-star general with a high position in the Joint Chiefs of Staff, two-star admirals and generals, a chief of staff of one of the key Congressional committees concerned with defense policy, and representatives from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Security Council, and the Departments of State, Treasury, Defense, Commerce and Transportation, Johnston added...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Kennedy School Sponsors National Security Program | 6/7/1978 | See Source »

...tradition, recipients of honoraries must appear in person to receive their degrees. That requirement prevented then-President Harry S Truman, who preferred the June mugginess of Washington to the swelter of Cambridge, from picking up one of the sheepskins in the late '40s, and also kept General of the Army Douglas MacArthur degree-less during the Korean...

Author: By Bro. IGNATIUS Dooley, | Title: Rampant Speculation Continues Over Choices for Honoraries | 6/7/1978 | See Source »

...this presented some problems for the Economics Department, particularly because there was no way to recreate a general exam comparable to the one Fogel would have taken 50 years ago. "Most of what he studied was pre-Keynesian economics," David G. Hartman, assistant professor of Economics and Fogel's tutor, said this week. "It was impossible to write a fair general exam, so he wrote a senior paper instead...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Alumnus To Get Degree After 50 Years | 6/6/1978 | See Source »

...growing up in a society where the rules dictating their opportunity to use their intellects were dictated by men. Although the women might laugh and say how silly some of the old college rules were, they basically abided by them because they were not that different from the general codes of behavior for women in society. Bolster's view is that "some of us were feminists but most of us were rather conventional. Beyond the achievement of votes for women, things tapered...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Depression and War Left Their Marks | 6/6/1978 | See Source »

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