Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days wiser, we now realize that what follows is not a survey but only a healthy glance. For every case reported here, we have heard of another, but have had insufficient material for publication. For every one of those in turn, there were probably many others of which we never heard. Even had every infraction been uncovered, every firing been exposed, the picture would still be incomplete. There is no way to tabulate the men who were never hired or the promotions that were never made...
...State also overlooked a score of miscellaneous inefficiencies. The Metropolitan District Obligation, a publicly owned bond issue that had been paying an exorbitant interest rate for thirty years was not refinanced; the antiquated system of depreciation was never changed; and the cities and towns with MTA track running through them never reimbursed the MTA for snow removal. Probably $6,000,000 of the deficit is represented in these and the many other small bookkeeping complexities that permeated the old El accounting...
Touch football and volleyball are the only sports Kirkland has won, but it has never finished worse than fourth in any sport. The Deacon record shows a tie for first in football and seconds in basketball (combined A and B League point totals), fencing, and wrestling...
...speeding talk, there is no little scramble for the advantageous positions at High Table. His enormous popularity among Cambridge society, his three or four-hour conversations standing in the Lowell courtyard late at night, and his refusal to make morning appearances have brought forth the rumor that he never gets up before noon. He denies this strenuously and insists that he rises at 9 a.m. every morning. He admits, however, that he is haunted by the tragedy of Descartes, who contracted a fatal "early morning virus" while in the service of the Queen of Sweden. Berlin, therefore, stays inside with...
Berlin likes General Education, but hopes it will never have a faculty of its own. He respects the graduate school system and thinks that more should be done in England in that direction. Lastly he praises Harvard's "universal passion for music. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven everywhere--wonderful." But Isaiah Berlin is going back to let the hostesses of London tear each other part over him and teach philosophy at Oxford...