Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout, the Harvard Guide to American History is a scholar's companion. By following its reading lists, the intellectually curious will be well-rewarded; in its advice the fledgling scholar will find guidance, while the older historians will learn new tricks. The Guide seems destined to fulfill the fond purpose of its authors; it is sure "to be outdated quickly by the writings of those...
...concluding selection, Beethoven's Septet in E-Flat, represents its creator in his wittiest and most lyrical vein. While retaining features of the older divertimento (especially in the prominent violin part), it also looks forward to the work of later composers--Mendelssohn must have known the scherzo well. Despite a few lapses in intonation, the performers gave all the energy and sparkle the septet demands, and it brought an appropriately enthusiastic response from the audience...
...Civilized." In little longer than the "twinkling of an eye" so popular in older fairy tales, they were in Munich, and Father Georgescu-who had been notified of their release while on a business trip to Ankara, Turkey, and had flown to meet them-was clasping them in his arms. Twenty-six hours later, after a transatlantic flight, they were hugging their pretty, 46-year-old mother in New York...
...them a primitive corncob which he sent to Botanist Paul C. Mangelsdorf of Harvard. Dated by radioactive carbon, it proved to be more than 4,000 years old and cleared up several mysteries about the origin of corn. Urged and partially financed by Harvard to find even older corn, MacNeish returned last year to Tamaulipas...
There were 21 distinct layers, each older than the one above it. High points were the finding of five matting-wrapped mummies, bone-dry and well preserved. They had been buried in a doubled-up position, like babies in the womb. The ancient Huastecas believed in an afterlife, and they thought that this style of burial favored a prompt rebirth...