Word: givens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spoke with a precise and confident British accent. Had he been a Communist? "I collaborated with Communists," he said, firmly, "but I was never a member of the party." Had he ever taken State Department documents and given them to "people not authorized to have them?" Briskly, the witness said he had-he had handed a briefcase full of them...
...Wingate Trophy is given each year to the player considered most valuable to the team by the coaches and manager. The Wendell Bat goes to the player accumulating the most points, one point being given for each safe arrival at first base, stolen base, sacrifice, and run batted...
...centuries this aspect of university work has frequently led to criticisms on the part of some who view the academic scene from a distance. Sometimes universities are held to be too connective and sometimes too radical. Indeed, it has happened that both criticisms were leveled simultaneously at a given institution. For example, Oxford and Cambridge were both belabored with hard words by Thomas Hobbes and John Milton at the same moment; in the one instance for being hotbeds of republicanism and rebellion, and in the other for being reactionary strongholds of the church and partisans of an autocratic king...
...Bill of Rights, Bahn declared, has given the University "democratically constituted" classes, and therefore "a quickened intellectual life...
...last words of advice given to us by one of the young ladies pictured was "Don't get too Ishy in this article." In order to follow the letter of this advice the CRIMSON will end this article now with an undramatic "Happy birthday" to Radcliffe on its 70th Anniversary...