Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sooner the better. For if Harvard is, as so many seem to believe, the center of the world, then it is a mockery of its sophistication that it still fails to ameliorate the CHUL representatives and request a world's oldest injustice-sex seat, discrimination. The student discontent to long dormant should come to life. As early as January 5, Harvard-Radcliffe students will be able to bring sex-blind admissions to the forefront when the directors of the Associated Harvard Alumni arrive at Harvard for a three-day conference. They hope to meet in the Houses with student representatives...
...that will be pushed to the back of my mind today. One of my oldest friends will be in the Stadium playing football. And although I am generally loyal to Mother Harvard, today I'll be cheering for Yale...
...cheering for Yale this weekend. Although my loyalty to Mother Harvard is usually unwavering, neighborhood loyalties are stronger than college ties, and one of my oldest friends is starting in Yale's backfield...
Midwifery may not be the world's oldest profession, but it is described in the earliest books of the New Testament. The midwife was an accepted member of the social structures of ancient Greece and Rome, and once held the exclusive right to assist women at childbirth. In most countries she is still a respected member of the medical-care system. In the U.S., midwives dominated obstetrics as late as the 19th century, when their role was taken over by doctors, many of whom considered these women anachronistic and unqualified and supported efforts to legislate them into obscurity...
...Peter's College, Oxford, has had nearly 100 reader-scribes scouring fiction, nonfiction, newspapers and scientific journals from all over the English-speaking world in search of references to their assigned words. Some of the readers worked for nothing, while most freelanced for about $1 an hour. The oldest was a cleric in his 90s who is also listed as a contributor to the first O.E.D. The most prolific was a British book reviewer, Marghanita Laski, who supplied more than 100,000 usage illustrations...