Word: item
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...importance for Harvard humanists than such things as conservation, or a woman's right to choose. I do maintain, however, that the attempt to develop and establish a universal second language is more than casually interrelated with humanism, that the selection and use of such a language remains an item of unfinished business for humanists at large, and that the issue is particularly relevant to humanist students at Harvard...
...most priceless item in the Tozzer Library collection is the Hemenway Codex painted on barkwood, said head librarian Nancy Schmidt. "It's a pictorial record of Europeans first encountering native Americans in the New World," says Schmidt, adding, "there are lots of reproductions available, but only a few original codexes from the 16th century...
...which equals the school in distinction. The Treasure Room of the Law School's Langdell Library contains "the only serious collection of English legal manuscripts in the country," curator Edith Henderson proudly boasts. "Langdell's Treasure Room owns one third more books than the British Museum Library and some item which you can't find at either Oxford or Cambridge," Henderson added...
...woman's group about the civilizing effect of women on men ("if it weren't for you we men would still be walking around in skins") and put both his advisors and the media in an uproar for days. The so-called "gender gap" has become one hot-political item...
...books and years when both were ruled by the same government, excepting periods of Chinese and French colonization). Bolstering the United States strategic forces is one of the major accomplishments of the Reagan Administration, and while the President has broken a lot of new ground in this field, the item likely to get the most attention will be the display case showing the submarine-launched missile that is recallable--a device the Pentagon is not yet aware...