Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reduced and expanded many times in the 192 years since. Sorting men into groups according to their differences may seem a simple task. But even now, anthropologists argue heatedly on how to do it. They have partitioned the human species into anywhere from two to 200 races; some anthropologists maintain that humanity cannot or should not be subdivided into races at all. The debate does not particularly concern the great majority of nonexperts. Man's eyes tell him that the species comes in three predominant skin shades, which are chromatically though imperfectly described as white, yellow and black. From...
Sociologist Caporale, who reports that similar underground churches are rising in Europe and Latin America, argues that a major weakness of the movement is its introverted quality: unless the cells maintain some connection with the official church, they may turn into inbred holiness clubs. Publisher Donald Thorman of the National Catholic Reporter, however, is convinced that the movement will not soon disappear, largely because so many clerics have become involved. "There have been innumerable unofficial movements within the church before," he says, "but they came and went rapidly because they lacked the unifying factor of a priesthood and a liturgy...
Upperclassmen can pick up an SSS Form 109 to maintain their 2-S deferments from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at Memorial Hall. Every student must bring his Harvard bursar's card, his Selective Service Registration Certificate, a letter addressed to his local draft board requesting defermen, a stamped envelope addressed to his local board, and a ball point...
...past, the Coop was able to maintain the ten-eight refund rate despite rises in expenses by drawing from its yearly surplus in dealings with non-members, Morrill said. (Non-members account for about 20 per cent of yearly business.) But tax laws passed in 1962 no longer allow that, the general manager explained...
Despite the tendency away from Pan-Africanism, however, AAAAS serves a valid function. It is an outlet for Harvard and New England Negroes to maintain dignity by identfying as a group and as a private social organization. Currently, some Harvard Negroes are in a tough spot, it being difficult to endorse Black Power right...