Word: pastings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advised, not compelled, by an assigned tutor. His degree is not awarded until he has proved his right to be recognized as having a college* education by taking comprehensive examinations which are largely non-factual in character. This measures the student's present proficiency and not his past success in cramming for numerous quizzes. Oxford has succeeded in encouraging both independence of mind and maturity of judgment...
...doctor asked the crowd to leave. As the last figures disappeared, Bill Yancey was hauled slowly up the shaft. In his arms was a small, blanketed form. Tenderly he laid the bundle on a white pillow in the back of a black car. In silence, the car rolled slowly past the derricks and the piled dirt, past the gaping hole and the steel casing, past the rows of exhausted, grimy workmen...
...Britain and France last week reached agreement on a blueprint for Western Germany. In eight days of intensive conferences in Washington, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Britain's Ernest Bevin and France's Robert Schuman accomplished more than they and their regiments of advisers had in the past eight months...
...present system still does not equal the service that Yale provides for the races on the Thames. For the past few years, the Elis have broadcast a close up report of strokes and positions over a regular network to Connecticut fans...
Following their election, the new members will attend three orientation meetings at which they will be briefed on the purpose of the N.S.A., policy matters, and past projects. Then, for a period of three weeks, they will work as apprentices on present N.S.A. college committees prior to stepping into their new positions...