Word: highests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then the results were announced. For the first six tracts, a combine of Gulf Oil, British Petroleum and its Alaskan subsidiary bid $97 million. Another tract, just southwest of Prudhoe Bay, brought the highest single bid of the day, submitted jointly by Amerada Hess and Getty Oil: $72,277,133. A rival consortium of Phillips, Mobil and Standard Oil of California had bid a scant $164,133 less. Having underestimated on one tract, the same group decidedly overestimated on another, making a bid of $18,130,000. The next highest bid was a nominal...
...iron churchman died in 1642, at the age of 57. He reminded Louis XIII, who visited his deathbed, that he was leaving France "in the highest degree of glory and of reputation which it has ever had, and all your enemies beaten and humiliated." Then he asked the King to appoint the Italian papal diplomat Mazarin his successor as First Minister. Louis, O'Connell believes, probably never liked Richelieu. Almost no one did. But the King fed the dying Cardinal two egg yolks with his own hand. A few hours after the Cardinal's death, Louis told Mazarin...
Because of his popularity and because he was the highest ranking faculty member investigated. Stauder's case might well become the rallying point of student discontent, radical and otherwise, over the Spring and summer proceedings. Radicals in particular have interpreted the Corporation decision as a complete firing from the University with the extra year at Harvard as time to find...
...cordial to the point of exuberance, sometimes to the point of bedlam. If male, they could be shouting at football games: as it is, they can discuss a hockey game vivaciously throughout a dinner. When asked what adjective they would use if they wanted to give another girl the highest compliment possible, they unanimously answer "charming" or "feminine...
...apprehensive entering student this is the real Commencement. But it is not an auspicious beginning at all. At the least, the new Harvard man must wonder and worry about what his venture into highest education will bring him. After all, learning and frustration often cross. At the same time, he is terribly aware that his future depends on the unpredictable actions of Major General Hershey and Congressman Vinson of Georgia and, of course. Premier Joseph Stalin. No, this is not a beginning to crow about, hardly a start to the supposedly leisurely, satisfying process of learning...