Word: ies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EVEN before Sputnik, Soviet scientists were freely predicting successful space flights to the moon by the early 1960s. Since the launching of their satellite, the timetable has been confidently pushed up. HOC IE CIIVTHHKA−I VHA (After Sputnik, the moon), the Russians proclaim, hinting that an unmanned rocket try at the moon might be planned from a Soviet launching site in the near future, perhaps to coincide with the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution on Nov.7...
...rationale is the University's feeling of obligation to act as an entity in a manner befitting a responsible citizen, does such an obligation justify the more stringent enforcement of the law on certain members of the larger community, ie the students, than on others. University fines, to which only students are subject, are higher than Cambridge fines...
While the Harvard of President James Bryant Conant was placing the official tamp on general education, President Pusey of Lawrence was deepening his own curriculum in his own way. For one thing, ie started a freshman-studies course in which scientists, sociologists, economists, historians and men of the humanities studied and taught great books together...
Liner is Hume Probyne, a gentleman steeped in the genteel tradition. ("It had been a better world when John was John or Jack, he ruminated. If this fad for men's names in 'y' or 'ie' was not a sign of decay, it was, he thought, proof that male infancy was being prolonged.") They meet when Hume is sent to New York on a family mission: to pry his nephew from Rose, who is presumed to be using her assets to earn Main Line dividends. Since she is really trying to dissolve the partnership, Hume...
...think of it as a treatment in itself, but as a handy tool to help them give other, conventional forms of treatment. Typically, under "eye fixation," the patient goes into a trance and soon tells about his Doubles. Before he is "awakened," the hypnotherapist tells him whether or not ie is to remember, on awakening, what he has said. If the decision is in favor of remembering, there will then be a conscious discussion of the problems. Sometimes the business of banishing symptoms of illness may be done by suggestions made during the trance period...