Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...class or in public lectures, Copey's small size made him self-con-scious about reading or speaking standing up. A letter in a recent Alumni Bulletin describes his in sistence on a table and chair that would fit "a boy five feet, five and one-half inches tall" and a cloth long enough to hide his legs. Once these details were disposed of, Copey's classroom manner was awe-inspiring. George Santayana wrote, "Copeland was an artist rather than a scholar; he was a public reader by profession, an elocutionist." A green bookbag and a glass of water always...
This letter is written as a testimony of defense for Dr. George A. Buttrick, preacher to Harvard University for the past three and one half years. Since Dr. Buttrick chooses to remain silent in his own defense, it is the duty of those who admire and respect him to rally to his support at this time...
...announced a "limited'' step-up in AEC purchases of uranium concentrate from the 16 private mills now operating and the seven under construction. In addition. AEC said that four entirely new mills are needed. As Congress has pointed out. contracts for Canadian and African concentrates, which fill half of U.S. needs, will end in the early 1960s. In all, AEC wants to add about 3,000 tons of ore to the U.S. daily milling capacity of 20,400 tons previously planned for 1962. As a first move. AEC announced negotiations with International Resources Corp. to build...
...even more time in the case of "people who we think have greater creative ability.'' This liberal policy has paid off handsomely. Says Crosby: "When we started in solid fuels, we hired people we felt had good mentality, and taught them a new field. Now we have half a dozen people who know as much about the subject as anyone else in the country...
...leopard waiting for a chance to make a double kill, Nebu is tormented by his son's presence even more than by his festering wound. The leopard, an implacable figure of retribution, provides a horrible ending that blends all the tragic elements of white, black and half-black frustrations and hatred...