Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There was a group of a little over 100 people on whom we had already made a decision, but when we discovered the error, we reviewed all those applicants," Meyer says adding, "We did not change any decisions. GMATs count for approximately one-sixth of the decision so a nine or ten point error is not very significant...
Three hundred and seventy-nine seniors will graduate without honors. Of the honors graduates, 352 will receive cum laude degrees, 304 cum laude in general studies, 354 magna, 24 magna with highest honors, and 59 summa. The Economics Department will award the most summas, with a total of six. A number of departments, however, will distribute no summas, including the departments of History, English and American Literature, Philosophy, Music and Sociology...
...other business, the council discussed charges that appeared in last week's Cambridge Chronicle that all nine members of the council accepted illegal campaign donations from city employees during the 1977 elections...
...first few years were difficult. Miro continued to paint farm scenes inspired by his native Spain that were realistic on the surface yet almost nightmarishly intense in spirit. Ernest Hemingway bought a huge work entitled "La Ferme," which Miro had toiled over for nine months in a studio with no heat and broken windows. Poverty was hardly romantic: Miro could only afford one lunch a week; on the other days he ate dried figs and chewed gum. For the "Carnaval d'Arlequin," one of his early masterpieces, he made many drawings...
...general overview of the developments that took place, but for the first time a note of personal passion and conviction appears. The attitude of moral outrage which Pusey adopted during the student outbreaks in 1969, his indignation that "Harvard men" could act in such a way, continues even nine years after the event. If the '50s were a "scoundrel" time in American history, Pusey considers in the student rebellion in the late 1960s even more reprehensible...