Word: oldest
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...keeping with University policy of fostering class spirit, most freshmen will live in Harvard Yard, the oldest part of the University. The ivy-covered buildings, lush green lawn and shady elms make the Yard an attractive place to start a four-year stint. People lounge on the grass, frisbees fly and dogs run loose, painting an idyllic picture of college for the newcomers. Enjoy the elms now. Many are suffering with Dutch elm disease and may have to be cut down. And don't worry about stepping in dog shit. There's amazingly little considering the number of dogs...
Last week Velasco's regime struck again, this time expropriating Lima's five remaining independent newspapers. In predawn raids, police carrying submachine guns invaded the newsrooms of the papers, including Peru's oldest and most prestigious daily, El Comercio, and pulled the front and editorial pages off the presses. Then the government's own hand-picked editors, who had followed the police onto the premises, proceeded to pull freshly minted editorials from their pockets proclaiming the takeover as "a new day of freedom...
...rendition of After You've Gone. The performance was a bittersweet joke, for members of New York's Typographical Union No. 6 were voting, with white marbles or black, on an innovative eleven-year contract that will radically shrink one of the nation's oldest and most powerful craft union locals. The white marbles outnumbered the black by an overwhelming 1,009 to 41, thus giving the New York Times and the Daily News the right to fully automate their production systems. In return, the 1,400 regular and 385 part-time printers at the Times...
...eleven women ordained are all deacons, most of them seminary graduates, whose backgrounds vary widely. The oldest, Jeannette Piccard, 79, piloted many of the stratospheric flights of her late husband, Balloonist Jean Piccard. Marie Moorefield, 30, a graduate of Vanderbilt Divinity School and a chaplain trainee at Topeka State Hospital in Kansas, grew up as a Southern Baptist and became an Episcopalian just five years ago. Nancy Hatch Wittig, 28, who is slated to take up duties at a Morristown, N.J., parish this month, is married to a Methodist pastor...
...Throughout all of the painstaking proceedings of this committee," said Rodino in his thin voice, "I as the chairman have been guided by a simple principle, the principle that the law must deal fairly with every man. For me, this is the oldest principle of democracy. It is this simple but great principle which enables man to live justly and in decency in a free society ... Make no mistake about it. This is a turning point whatever we decide. Our judgment is not concerned with an individual but with a system of constitutional government... Whatever we now decide, we must...