Word: imprint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very existence of the essential vitamin D, or "sunshine vitamin," was not established until the present century, but its imprint upon history goes back a million years or more. According to a theory now elaborated by Brandeis University Biochemist W. Farnsworth Loomis, it is because of the human body's need to take in a certain amount of vitamin D, but not too much, that the human species has developed into three principal racial groups distinguished by skin color and loosely called black, yellow and white...
...Much of the new professional sheen of academic publishing has been fostered by three veterans of the industry, each of whom has recently announced his impending retirement from his own pace-setting press. Combining sound editorial technique with a sense of significant scholarship, each has put his own distinctive imprint on university publishing. The three...
When the full extent of Belknap's endowment became known, the Press began using the Belknap imprint for more than Americana. Now a quarter of the books the Press publishes are awarded the imprint in recognition of their superiority. Recent Belknap books include Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward 2000-1887 and John K. Fairbank's China: The People's Middle Kingdom and the U.S.A...
...With its imprint being available regardless of an author's university affiliation, the Press is not so much an arm of Harvard as a parasite. But if there are two equally good works and only one can be published, and one of them is by a Harvard author, that one will be chosen, Wilson says. And the Press publishes numerous works for such Harvard organizations as the Russian Research Center and the Harvard-Yenching Institute...
Died. William C. Bullitt, 76, U.S. diplomat who left his imprint on history between the great wars; of leukemia; in Neuilly, France. Born into a wealthy Philadelphia family, he was a man of adrenal energy and immense flair, headstrong in his personal relationships (two marriages), fierce in his ambitions, spectacular in his causes and dissents. At 28, he was at the Versailles peace table with Woodrow Wilson, then returned in disenchantment to tell the Senate that Wilson's treaty would only deliver the world to "a new century of war." In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him first...