Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While studying aerial photographs of the Nile Delta after their country's 1967 conquest of the Sinai, Israeli geologists noticed soil markings that were clearly vestiges of two dried-up waterways. One was quickly identified as a silted offshoot of the Nile River called the Pelusiac branch (after the...
Phony Letters. The trail from CIA to IRS was marked by a once secret CIA memo unearthed by Church. It related how in 1967 a CIA official had warned IRS that the radical magazine Ramparts was planning to publish articles critical of the CIA and the whole Lyndon Johnson Administration...
That quarter was marked by seven punts and the inability of either team to do anything offensively, and the trend continued until late in the last stanza when Harvard punter Jim Curry unloaded a tremendous shot which pinned B.U. back on its own 22, with just three minutes to go...
Decline of Taste. A quarter of the paintings in the show and most of the craft objects-porcelain, lacquer, carvings, metalwork-were made after 1853, when Commodore Perry sailed into Edo Bay like some astronaut landing on an unvisited planet. This marked the beginning of Japan's cultural infatuation...
This hostile attitude had a marked impact on those Jews who were admitted or who got appointments at the university. Living in a hostile environment, they eventually had to adjust to it, and in the process, many evolved a strong ambivalence toward Judaism. Table 17 in Liset's article dealing...