Word: mid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue of lengthening Christmas recess recurred every year between 1913 and 1915. Students were allowed December 23 to January 3. They did not argue for extension because they wanted more leisure time; they wanted to be able to get home and back. As more students came from the mid-west and south, they needed extra travelling time. Lowell extended the Christmas recess...
...single individual, then. It may have been the Mid-West, or the New Deal, or something else altogether. Whatever it was, it had pushed Harvard to the beginning of an identity crisis. Some of the subtle pressures Harvard had always exerted were clearly being challenged from within...
...regime, Biafra is potentially a viable economic and political state. It produced $250 million worth of crude oil last year and also exports coal and palm-oil products. Gowon faces no mean task in forcing the rebel regime back into the union, especially since leaders in both his Mid-Western and Western regions, including the influential Chief Obafemi Awolowo, have shown no enthusiasm for military action against the East-or for a strong central government...
...still in circulation or hoarded away. That action would free 430 million oz. of Treasury silver now frozen by law as backing for the currency. Even so, the Wall Street brokerage firm of Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis recently predicted that the Treasury will run out of silver by mid-1968 (except for a strategic reserve...
...decided to play it safe and check every car, even though its engineers are sure that "the likelihood of this occurrence is not great." It is even less likely that the frank and open recall campaign will hurt the Cougar's popularity, which pushed Lincoln-Mercury's mid-May sales 25% ahead of the same period last year...