Word: past
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge Civic Association has won three seats on the six-man Cambridge School Committee, thus essentially keeping the same difficulties in getting a majority it has faced the past two years...
...Vleck, a member of the five-man Harvard team sent to the universities of Moscow and Leningrad in February 1959, praised Soviet work in physics, stating that it had equaled the American level for the past ten years...
...grammarians of ancient Greece. Translator Graves theorizes, is that the Iliad was meant to be entertainment, not solemn tragedy. In Graves's view, the poem is a satirical work in which Homer lampooned the princelings at whose courts he recited, while pretending to hymn the heroes of the past. In this view, Agamemnon, leader of the Achaeans, is the prize buffoon. And when Hector, the Trojan leader, offers to stake the whole war on a single combat, the Greeks respond at first with resounding silence. Then Menelaus, whose wife Helen set off the strife by running away with Paris...
Look Back in Anger. A glimpse through an attic window into a twilight society that looks forward to the past. With Richard Burton as the original Angry Young...
...simply mean that Harvard must righteously refuse to touch forms with an affidavit of belief attached; the University must also refuse to participate in any program which includes such an affidavit. A decade ago it might have been possible to secure repeal of the NSF affidavit by lobbying, but past inaction has committed Harvard to taking a far stronger position if it wants the affidavit removed...