Word: mid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Monro saw in the forms Glimp submitted he can't really explain; it must have been more than Glimp's being rural and mid-Western, though that was something Harvard wanted. For whatever reason, he put the folder aside and read it again--and again. Then, with some misgivings, he recommended that the College accept the man who would 20 years later succeed him as its Dean...
...read had been drawn in by Bender's efforts to recruit in high schools and in regions where Harvard had never been very active, and to offer more financial aid there than Harvard had ever done before. They came from poorer urban neighborhoods, from foreign countries--and from the mid-West...
...stage in the Old Library is a pleasant piece of invention: a rectangular space with risers to the left for the Duke's palace and risers to the right for Olivia's habitation. Unfortunately the cast is forever surging back and forth across mid-stage, drawing our attention from one house to the other with no purpose...
...past and that future writings on China will have to face up to some of the basic shortcomings that have crept into the style and content of leadership as exercised by the present elite. One is hesitant to describe the events of the past few years (and especially mid-1966) as a dramatic turning point in Chinese Communist history. Yet these events suggest that the past virtues of cohesiveness and unity may have degenerated into the vices of stagnation and arbitrariness
...Parishad or Democratic Council. But in none of these could it be kept out of power for long. In Kerala, the central government had ousted the Communists from power and imposed direct rule by the President of India following massive popular unheaval against the Communists in 1959. In the mid-term elections that had followed in 1960, a non-Communist coalition consisting of Congress and other parties had routed the Communists. Later the coalition had disintegrated and Congress had come to be the sole party in power. In Orissa, too, the coalition had broken down and the Congress given absolute...