Word: half
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also suggested that law students might attend only one-and-a-half years of classes. The rest of the three-year program could be spent working in communities for academic credit, he said...
...report's most specific proposal centered on a revision of Astronomy 101 ("Observational Astronomy"). Expansion of the present half-course format, more fully coordinated with Physics 112, would "permit students a grasp of the range of astrophysical phenomena and a reasonably advanced physical and mathematic level," the report said...
...chanced upon a few angry Indians and been killed, or run into wild animals to be trampled to death, or have to cross the plains and, running out of supplies, simply die of starvation. The world was an unavoidable challenge. Of the first Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, one half of them died in the first few months, and those who remained began a new experience in which danger was common and to face it only commonly courageous...
Although the Mexican Revolution ended a half-century ago and some of its accoutrements, the big sombreros and the moustaches, may seem laughable to us now, the Revolution remains an instructive episode in modern history. Zapata's guerrilla tactics were those the Viet Cong use; during the Huerta dictatorship, villagers in Morelos were herded into camps while their land was defoliated, that the farmers might be pacified; journalists and outside agitators attempted to change the course of the Revolution...
...Like other local jefes, Zapata sought legal recourse and found there was none left. Unlike the others, he and his neighbors took their guns and defended their fields. The rest of the villages followed and the revolution in Morelos, which was to last a decade and cost the state half its populations, was begun...