Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chain Mail & Battle-Axes. What the book proves in pictures is that, while in the clash of two peoples both may lose, in the clash of two cultures both may gain. When 12,000 Arab troops landed at Gibraltar in A.D. 711, the invaders brought along with their scimitars a civilization that was far in advance of anything found in Europe during the Dark Ages. With the conquering Moslem armies came algebra, advances in medicine, chess, astronomy, paper instead of papyrus. Compared with heavy Romanesque, their architecture seemed to defy gravity, lifting lacy ceilings that appeared to float like airy...
Milgram hopes that if the project is successful, the students will publish the results. In the meantime, they will wait in William James for the first-hand accounts to come in the mail...
...will mail requests for appointments to graduate students at the College of Arts and Sciences in a few weeks. Law School students will be solicited for appointments at Harkness Commons November 14 through...
Born in Würzburg, Neckermann worked in Berlin during the Nazi era, acquired for a bargain price a textile mail-order house belonging to a Jew who was forced to sell and flee. Neckermann joined the Nazi Party, did well selling uniforms to Hitler's armies during World War II. After V-E day, the Allies confiscated Neckermann's property and put him in jail for a year. He kept up his textile contacts and in 1950 set up business in a rented barracks at a refugee camp, where labor was especially cheap...
...publicize his wares and prices. They did not stop him from getting supplies, but they did get repairmen to boycott Neckermann goods-with the result that Neckermann now has a chain of 115 repair shops, as well as 30 department stores, 79 smaller retail stores, two supermarkets and three mail-order centers...