Word: north
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Freshman Dean's office, has a modest amount of money to spend on various activities. One of the better ones is the Yardling, a periodical of indefinite periods that permits the literary freshman to break out in print. While in some years much worse than the Muncie. Indiana. North High Turkey Gobble, the Yardling has recently improved, perhaps reflecting the growing maturity of incoming freshmen, and last year changed its name to the Harvard Yard Journal...
Cambridge geography has always been a bit mystifying. The Charles River should be your natural point of orientation. But it meanders all over the place; it flows North to South, then East to West...
Perhaps most startling to the unaccustomed Western eye is the extraordinary wooden architecture of the north. It is a land of forests, and its builders developed an unexcelled skill in fashioning wood. Confronted by the domes and cupolas imported from Byzantium, they adapted these masonry-based forms to an idiom of carpentry that produced a unique style, unmatchable and now un-copyable because it depends on a craftsmanship that no longer exists...
...resulted in the restoration of many churches, including the lovely 14th century Church of the Savior of the Transfiguration. In its dome can be seen the divergence of the Russian from the Byzantine model. Finding Byzantium's semispherical dome ill-suited to the heavy snow of the north, the church's original architect replaced it with a bulbous cupola, which eventually developed into the characteristic onion shape. Russian architecture was on its way to finding its own style...
...Storage. The emergence of new exporting nations makes the price of wheat more sensitive than ever to the harsh pressures of supply and demand. In 1961, when the world wheat glut reached a record 1 billion bushels, the surplus consisted exclusively of U.S. and Canadian produce stored at North American facilities. Today, surpluses are also piled high in Australia, Hungary, Bulgaria, the Soviet Union and Common Market countries. Most of the new exporters lack both the storage capacity and the inclination to retain their surpluses in order to stabilize world prices. As a result, the 1968 International Grains Arrangement, which...