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Word: overwhelmingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Third, the survival--literally the survival--of the free university depends upon the entire community's active rejection of disruptive demonstrations. Any sizeable group, left to pursue such tactics, can destroy either the university by repeatedly disrupting its normal activities or the university's freedom by compelling the authorities to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conclusions of the Cox Commission | 10/9/1968 | See Source »

Third: the overwhelming majority of people employed by Harvard University in advanced administrative positions, by choice do not live in the City of Cambridge.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: . . .AND CAMBRIDGE | 10/5/1968 | See Source »

Negroes do, in fact, account for more violent crimes in the cities than do whites; the poor usually do. Although Negroes make up 11% of the U.S. population, black arrests for murder last yea"r numbered 4,883, compared with 3,200 for whites. The overwhelming majority of victims of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FEAR CAMPAIGN | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

Through all my travels in Greece my overwhelming impression was of the reticence of the people. They just won't talk to anyone unless they know him quite well. Many have been imprisoned for long periods for seemingly trivial offenses. The papers carried word of a man convicted of subverting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greece Gets A New Constitution | 10/2/1968 | See Source »

Jumping on the Dean and the Faculty for these failures, however, is not quite fair. Sizer is aware of the lack of coordination in the reform movement but feels it's unavoidable. "You don't change universities from the top," says Sizer. "The head is -- to mix a metaphor -- a...

Author: By David Blumenthal, | Title: Back to School | 9/28/1968 | See Source »

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