Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Yale race is a real long pull, too. It is the longest in American racing. It is almost twice as long as any of the other Harvard races of the season. For the past two years the Bolles style has given Harvard an advantage in this stamina test...
...Prize Scholarships. These go to graduates of New England private schools. The recipients are selected from a group nominated by headmasters of private schools which in any two of the past five years have sent five or more men to Harvard...
...socialization" in medicine-into thinking that Fishbein's firing meant a change in fundamental A.M.A. attitude. The tipoff came three days later, when the delegates passed the buck on approval of the controversial prepaid medical plans run by laymen back to the local societies-in the past, the bitterest enemies of prepaid plans. The House, without committing itself, passed along a set of principles to "guide" the local societies in this old fight...
...newspapers' fight, but the radio stations did the fighting and won the victory. For ten years, the Baltimore papers had spinelessly obeyed Rule 904 of the municipal Supreme Bench, which prohibited newspapers-and radio stations-from reporting a suspect's confession or past criminal record until they were introduced in court. The judges had put the British-style gag on the press in 1939, after a sensational murder case, in the belief that newspaper stories might deprive a defendant of an impartial trial...
...Love, whose "telescreens" (which hear and see every move and sound and bark out harsh commands) are a fixture in every apartment. Each dreary day sees the disappearance of a colleague or relative into the Ministry's death-cellars. No one writes letters; no authentic records of the past are permitted; no memory is safe from the skilled glance of the Thought Police. Slowly but surely, the old English language, with its treasury of dangerous thoughts and mischievous expressions, is being steamrollered flat and converted into "Newspeak"-a toneless, crimethink-less cablese...