Word: graduall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They did. They walked right in Lamont and grabbed its books. They hid them under chairs and smuggled them out in their jackets. Faced with the gradual loss of Lamont's books, the University had to give up the idea of an "open library." It placed many of the most sought after books on closed reserve...
...I.R.O. went out of business, leaving the 46,000 behind as a legacy to a nation that does not know what to do with them. Before these unwanted D.P.s-nearly all Slavs, almost no Jews-stretched a black future: mere charity subsistence from the West German government, and a gradual descent from misery to despair...
...Black Mamba," by William Conboy, is an intriguing story of a pregnant wife, resident of Cape Town, who goes for her health to the warm, dry veldtland. Her gradual emergence into the sun and warmth, in both the literal and figurative senses, and her final dramatic renunciation of the cold, unsensual life with her husband are very neatly done. Mr. Conboy builds his setting with authority and a minimum of beating around the bush, which gives the story an extremely rapid pace. My only complaint would lie with the insufficient development of the husband, who remained throughout little more that...
Harvard's rise to national grid fame was not so sudden as Centre and the decline from the ranks of the mighty has been more gradual. Despite what some of the nation's more snide press scribes may write, the Crimson also has not sunken to the obscurity of Centre College. Eastern football in general has skidded into amateurim and the Crimson has gone along with the trend--though most Harvard fans might wish that the Crimson were not holding up the bottom of the de-emphasized league...
...building--in effect a wing of the Union--has been on a gradual decline since the days just after the last war. In those golden days some 20 athletes--mostly veterans--were living upstairs in the club, and the bulletin board downstairs was covered with the usual ribald notes about meals and girls...