Word: mason
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When the committee presented its constitution on Sept. 12, the delegates eagerly began trying to change things all over again, in ways large and small. Mason of Virginia declared for the first time that summer that there should be a bill of rights. He was voted down by ten states to none. Madison wanted a statement that Congress should create a national university, and Franklin wanted it authorized to dig canals, but they were both voted down...
WALKER PERCY is arguably the greatest living Southern novelist. His canon is as solid as any contemporary American's, north or south of the Mason-Dixon. The Moviegoer, Percy's first and best novel, received the National Book Award in 1962 and the works that followed--The Last Gentleman, Love in the Ruins, Lancelot, and The Second Coming--established a critical and commercial cult following that was, and is, highly deserved...
...simultaneously on a second screen in the van. Experts differ on how close this technique is to being usable. One figures that a skilled technician could put the basic interception equipment together from components that can be bought in any electronics store for about $300. Maybe so, counters Frank Mason, president of a Fairfield, Conn., company that makes countermeasure devices for the Government, but "you would need almost laboratory equipment" to get a good reproduction. Protecting computers against such snooping is expensive. Metal shields can be placed around ! computers to contain the electronic pulses, but one expert estimates that installing...
Chris Garvey, a junior transfer, has also pitched in to fill the scoring vacuum efficiently. In addition, Nick Nero, Rob Griffith and Dean Graham all return. The Harvard women's lacrosse team battles George Mason last year...
...Black Bears, under Coach Sean Walsh--a former assistant to Mason--are making their first-ever tournament appearance. The Bears lead the nation in penalty killing with a phenomenal mark of 86.6 percent kills...