Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ford Foundation. At every stop, public discussions will be held under the sponsorship of local World Affairs Councils and universities. Starting this week in Los Angeles, the jet-borne conference will visit San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Houston, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Chicago and Dallas. The meetings are meant for community participation; those who wish to attend should call their local World Affairs Council...
Harvard's problem is that, while its admissions policy has kept up with the changing context of education in society, its educational policy has not. Most of the Harvard Faculty, trained at a time when college meant something vastly different from what it means today, have difficulty in understanding just how radical those changes are. The commotion which followed President Pusey's unfelicitous report to the Overseers illustrates that the problem is not simply one of lack of communication: there are very basic differences of opinion as to what a university should be like...
...hockey was born, so goes one tale, when French explorers pushing into the St. Lawrence Valley in 1740 came upon a band of Iroquois Indians whacking away at an object-and each other-with murderous-looking sticks and shrieking "Ho-gee! Ho-gee!" The word, as it turned out, meant "It hurts...
...book was originally meant as a law-school thesis, and the pair spent both their second and third years working on it. It earned a top grade-and a contract from Oceana Publications, a specialist in international-law texts. The authors started out as neither hawks nor doves. They merely sought to discover the pertinent law on a few of the same problems that the Harvards will be investigating. The results will surprise many people, including lawyers, who sincerely consider the war not only immoral but illegal as well...
...persons aboard (among the survivors: CAT's Chief Pilot Stuart E. Dew, 46, who served as General George Marshall's personal pilot during his China mission in 1946). Though the suspension was said to be temporary, everyone's best guess was that it probably meant CAT's death...