Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Councilor Al Vellucci was forced to retreat yesterday, as the Cambridge City Council outvoted him, 7 to 1, to grant Harvard's petition for a steampipe across Prescott...
...budgetary practices of the Defense Studies Program conform to usual University practice and to the terms of the Ford Foundation Grant under which the Program operates. Moreover, the figures given in your article are incorrect...
...play. After only 22 lessons, his music teacher sent him home, saying "I can't teach him any more." Last year visiting British Composer Benjamin Britten heard Ates play two original compositions, became so enthusiastic that the Parses decided to let their son try for a travel grant. Said a wistful Mrs. Pars in her Montparnasse hotel room last week: "We knew...
Stonewall was no superman. He stumbled into an ambush at Kernstown, and his failure to press home the attack during the Seven Days' Battles has never been satisfactorily explained. But he resembled U.S. Grant in his habitual willingness to fight, and Napoleon in his instant grasp of the weakness of an enemy position. His own officers were infuriated by his secrecy, often knowing as little of his plans as did the foe. Occasionally this habit cost him a victory. More often it resulted in stunning surprises, as at Chancellorsville when his entire force suddenly appeared in the enemy rear...
...Confederacy. In this absorbing book, Texas-born Historian Vandiver (Rice Institute) does not hazard a guess, but notes that Stonewall's magic was greatly aided by the mediocrity of his opponents. Tactics that bewildered Banks and Pope and Hooker might well have foundered against commanders like Grant and Sherman. As it was, Jackson's greatest coups were repeatedly frustrated by the dogged resistance of the often outwitted but seldom outfought Union soldier. At the Second Battle of Bull Run, Jackson struck with sledgehammer force against an unsuspecting Federal column miles behind the front. Instead of disintegrating...