Word: graved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answer is important not only because 16 students have been deprived of tutorial, but also because the problem raises grave doubts about the success of two major faculty policies. First, is Dean Ford's program to improve undergraduate instruction, particularly the addition of middle-level sections and course assistantships, taking teaching fellows from the tutorial program? Second, will the departments find themselves physically unable to implement the Gill Plan without making major new outlays of income, such as hiring additional instructors, and some significant changes in departmental make-up? Dean Ford and the faculty should begin immediately to find...
...Harvard, meanwhile, a great deal of rethinking has to be done. One of the strong assumptions of Soviet studies here has been that once a Soviet dictator is firmly entrenched in power he cannot be removed from within except as a result of grave mental disability or death. This unexpected succession throws the neatly drawn "characteristics of totalitarian dictatorship" out of order...
...Grave & Reformed. Adams' two older brothers were black sheep. John Adams II was kicked out of Harvard for joining in a riot, and the family allowed him to settle down as the manager of a flour mill in Washington. George became an alcoholic, had an illegitimate child by a servant girl, and finally committed suicide. Charles Francis, who would have preferred to be a scholar, felt obligated to carry on the family tradition of public service. He cut down on the drinking bouts, made an effort to appear "grave, sober, formal, precise and reserved," and began his new career...
...braking of the car jolted Governor Connally back to consciousness. Despite his grave wounds, he bravely tried to stand up and get out so that the doctors could reach the President. But he collapsed again. Mrs. Kennedy held the President in her lap, and for a moment she refused to release him. Then three Secret Service men lifted him onto a stretcher and pushed it into Trauma Room...
...Colonel Passmore could have removed it with relative ease on his first try with an electromagnet. When he found that it was another material - almost certainly brass-all he could do was let the eye heal a little and hope to get at the object later. But there was grave danger that eye fluids would react with the metal and compel removal of the eye. Then Dr. Passmore remembered reading that Dr. Nathaniel Bronson II had begun work in New York on an ultrasound probe to locate foreign bodies in the eye within a millimeter. (X rays have an error...