Word: national
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cornell tailback Ed Marinaro is the nation's leader in rushing average, but the Big Red may need a little more this afternoon if it hopes to dump Harvard's resurgent football team at Ithaca...
...Leads Nation...
Currently, M. I. T. leads the nation's universities in Defense Department research. The Instrumentation Laboratory alone receives about $27 million. (half its yearly budget) from the Pentagon, and has recently been criticized for its contribution to the Navy's Polaris and Poscidon missile guidance units...
...dramatic sense and power out of all history, which it saw as human circumstance. Its basic notion, that a few universal sentiments motivate human actions, were more common in Griffith's Christian times than now. The films of the period, though, don't reflect it. Even Birth of a Nation, which was changing everyone's ideas of what films could be even while Intolerance was in production, dealt with members of two families in a historical context, tracing individuals' emotions through a war. The Expressionist practice of basing films on myths about existence postulates Intolerance by a few years...
...block one morning in 1587 seemed to be leaving behind a life of failure. She had spent nearly half of her 44 years in captivity, and was now condemned to be beheaded as a traitor. During the seven years that she had actively reigned over a small and backward nation, she had achieved nothing of note in foreign or domestic policy and had gradually yielded her power to a swarm of savagely contending noblemen. Most decisions in her life had turned out wrong. The last -to seek refuge in England-had literally proved fatal...