Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Close to 80 per cent of the campus leaders come from the ranks of the Greeks, and it has been four year since a non-Greek was chosen for the school's hall of Fame (six seniors chosen each year). Each of the school's last two Rhodes Scholar served as an officer in his fraternity...
Despite the impressive skills of modern science, the way to discover profitable mineral deposits around the Mediterranean often seems to be to curl up with a good book. Perusing the Greek classics and pinpointing their references. Italian Entrepreneur Jean-Baptiste Serpieri in 1864 rediscovered the ancient mines of Laurium near Athens, from which the classical Athenians extracted their wealth and the lead needed to build their fleet. Geologist Charles Godfrey Gunther located copper on Cyprus by reading Latin manuscripts. The latest to cash in on the classics is a short, stocky Greek named Alexander Xenarios, who spent 30 years roaming...
Xenarios got some small financial backing from a friend to set up the Chalcidice Mining Co., received a grant for further explorations from the Greek government. Japan's Nippon Mining Co. joined up with the company for a $350,000 exploratory expedition, last week had a team of Japanese experts working over the deposits. If the Japanese are satisfied by the find, they promise to put up $3,000,000 to form a new company with Chalcidice Mining, buy the copper output and ship it to Japan. Xenarios confidently expects a top position in the new company...
...Committee has about 20 members, divided half and half between Admissions Office staff and administrative officials, like Deans Monro and von Stade on the one hand and teaching faculty members like Eric A. Havelock, professor of Greek and Latin, and Edward M. Purcell, Gerhard Gade University Professor and a Nobel prize winner, on the other...
...theory that every writer has certain subconscious, invariable writing habits. Morton had Dr. Michael Levison of Birkbeck College program the London computer to check the frequency and use of kai, a common Greek word meaning and, also, even, etc., in sentences drawn from nine classical writers-including Plato and Plutarch-found that each had a clear and distinct pattern in the way he handled his kais...