Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hanson has headed the Advanced Standing Program since it began here three years ago. He commented that "The Advanced Standing Program has gotten off to a new start, but it is time to introduce a new director with a new point of view, before things get bogged...
...week's end it was only possible to wonder who in what city tenement or guarded country home was laughing hardest at the joke on Al-who had gotten the chair at last...
...killers inspected the remains with professional care. Then they joined the horrified barbers, customers and shoeshine boys who went bursting into a hall off the hotel lobby. They left Al as evidence that history repeats itself-he had gotten it in the same hotel in which Gambler Arnold Rothstein was shot back...
Time. Except in most unusual cases (e.g.in the middle-Eastern studies, where new languages must be gotten up before one may go very far), the whole program should take no more than three years of residence. In the first two years a man should take what courses he needs, and should have all the freedom from prescribed courses for his own individual work that his previous training will allow. At the end of his second year he should take his general examinations. At the end of his third year, he should have completed his thesis...
...almost doubled in the past 70 years, is expected to redouble every 42 years hereafter, and is rapidly approaching the level (top estimate: 7 billion) beyond which scientists believe the earth can no longer sustain all its inhabitants. "It is hard to avoid the conclusion that human multiplication has gotten out of hand," said Sociologist Davis, "that this unanticipated situation cannot continue...