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Marshall R. Phil '55, director of the Summer School, wrote the introduction, which chronicles the program's 112-year history. He touches briefly on its four-year hiatus in the '40s. wrought by the Axis attempt at world hegemony; he then notes, ironically, the institution's own subsequent turn towards imperialism. The small Brahmin-oriented school of the Depression years now infiltrates "forty-six states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico...the Virgin Islands [and] a record 66 countries...
...virtually impossible to calculate. The Government, which owns an estimated 34% of the nation's 475-billion-ton coal reserve, has routinely leased public land for coal extraction since 1920. In 1971, in order to evaluate its procedures, the Government declared a moratorium on federal coal leases. The hiatus, which did not end until 1981, effectively froze the market for coal leases, making future evaluations of tracts difficult. A 1976 reform requiring new leaseholders to mine their fields within ten years or forfeit their rights further complicated the mathematics of mine leasing...
...hosts answered a Panther goal just 13 seconds into the contest with a six-goal avalanche in the next six minutes. Hawley tied it at the 42 mark and, after a nearly three-minute hiatus, his roommate Steve Bartenfelder put Harvard ahead for good with goals 91 seconds apart...
Evans was the sixth person to be legally killed since Gary Gilmore's firing-squad execution in 1977 ended a ten-year hiatus in capital punishment in the U.S. More than 1,100 death-row inhabitants face similar fates. One of them is Wayne Ritter, Evans' accomplice, who is scheduled to sit in the same chair in two weeks...
When schoolwork usurped much of his bell-ringing time this year, the cowbell took a hiatus. But Frahm revived it midway through the season...