Word: origin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went on to label Kinsey's statements about "right and wrong," "normal and abnormal," and the origin of the family system as entirely misconceived and misleading...
Only a few other trees now living, including the redwood of California and the ginkgo, are of such ancient origin...
...origin of the feud is obscure. Earnestly endeavoring to track it down, one editor found: "Back in the 80's, some indifferent Yardsters referred idly to the growing institution on Garden Street as the Harvard Annex. That name stuck for years, faintly indicative of the vague scorn with which undergraduates looked on their feminine associates. In the intervening years, poor Radcliffe has come to be a synonym for all that is unattractive in women...
...final measure the building would contain a plaque bearing the names of all those men who gave their lives and would be outfitted with a memorial room to remind students using the building of its "basic purpose and origin...
Standing demurely a block beyond the Law School, where Everett Street runs into Massachusetts Avenue, Sargent College of Physical Education for Women has been turning out energetic young gym instructresses for 66 years. From its modest origin in 1881, when Dr. Dudley A. Sargent opened a "Sanatory Gymnasium" on Church Street, Sargent has progressed steadily to a broad and varied curriculum, with a student body of 500. In 1904, the school moved from Church Street to the present site, and slipped under the wing of Boston University in 1929, where it has been ever since...