Word: length
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some had to march out to work in the fields every day, they say, lashed together. Recalcitrants were beaten with a 3-ft. length of plastic pipe called "the rod of correction." Serious infractions were to be punished by days in a new jail cell. It was tiny, only 24 sq. ft., but then so were its prospective inmates, boys from five to 17. The compound in Walterboro, S.C., is not a prison but a Dickensian boarding school called the New Bethany Baptist Church Home for Boys. Police raided the place last week. Said Prosecutor Randolph Murdaugh...
Three weeks ago Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky devoted much of his annual report to defending the quality of Harvard's undergraduate teaching, and he focused at length on the Faculty's large reliance on graduate students as section leaders, graders, and counselors...
Lord said the epics varied in length, including one 13,000 lines long. He said the epics were often passed not from father to son, but from uncle to nephew, because "often fathers disapprove of sons," he says...
Though arrangements for the 40th anniversary have largely been taken over by the French government, the local committee will be back in charge next year, working to create what it hopes will become a living museum stretching 60 miles along the length of the invasion beaches. Last year about 1.5 million visitors, almost half of them Americans, stopped to gaze at the 172-acre U.S. cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, where 9,386 soldiers are buried beneath an immaculate lawn. The sheer multitude of white crosses and Stars of David, arranged in neat rows that undulate over the green expanse...
...reporting in the editorial "Divestiture Follies." I found it most ironic and unfortunate to read Charles T Kurzman's. "The Most Lucrative Job on Campus." Of particular concern to me was the fact that Charlie neither spoke with me not any of Brian's other employers at length regarding this matter. It seems to me that in order to understand why we hired a student to fill this position, Charlie would have to speak with...