Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Canadian tax laws allowing partial deductions for property taxes and mortgage interest from federal income taxes. Despite his party's traditional inability to win votes in Quebec, Clark confidently declared last week: "The Conservatives alone can form a national government. The Liberals have lost any capacity to regain ground in English Canada...
Italy will of course be the main testing ground, and the Polish Pope brings to Italian politics a new uncertainty, since he has no connections with any political leaders. That fact may accelerate the recent and healthy trend among Christian Democrats to compete as a normal political party...
...helium in large quantities. That was no small feat, because helium does not become liquid until its temperature has been reduced to about 4° above absolute zero. When Kapitsa returned to the Soviet Union for a visit in 1934, Stalin refused to let him leave again-on the ground that he was too precious a commodity to be allowed abroad. Continuing his experiments at home, Kapitsa helped shed light on the extraordinary behavior of supercold helium-helium II-which acts as a perfect fluid, so lacking in viscosity that it will creep over the wall of a glass container...
...have a chance for membership in a final club a boy must be, to start with, what is called 'club material'... These clubs for which the Pudding acts as a sort of proving ground, are the real be-alls and end-alls of Harvard social existence, and since there are but ten of them and in lean social years some have been known to take as few as four members, it is not a life for everyone. --Cleveland Amory '39, from The Proper Bostonians...
...Wellesley tennis team must have felt a little like the British in the Charge of the Light Brigade yesterday at Soldiers Field against the Harvard women's squad; as Wellesley charged in from West of Cambridge the Crimson women volleyed (and served and hit ground strokes) and thundered at them from all sides, beating them 9-0 and leaving them shell-shocked and in need of many a Florence Nightingale at the end of the match...