Word: hoc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...17th century dean, Dr. John Fell, whose reputation survives in one lethal quotation. He once threatened Poet Thomas Brown with university expulsion, promised to rescind the order if Brown could deliver an impromptu translation of Martial's 32nd Epigram ("Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare; Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te"). Brown's translation...
...University official explained that cases like Seeger's are decided by a fairly set rule, but on an ad hoc basis...
...city-wide ad hoc committee to study recreational facilities and a smaller group studying community organization as it relates to urban renewal may provide the catalyst for redevelopment in Cambridge...
...sightseers who have entered the Cathedral of St.-Lazare in Autun, on a hill 150 miles southeast of Paris, probably only a handful have seen or pondered long over the words carved at the foot of a primitive Christ above one of the doors. The words are "Gislebertus Hoc Fecit," and thanks to this signature, the glories of medieval European art do not, as in almost all instances, have to be written off as the work of devoted but anonymous artisans...
Unfortunately, he observed, according to his figures the gulls are laying only one-third the number of eggs that they actually are. He called for help from the HOC members to find out where the extra