Word: pastness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mathematics weren't difficult enough, for the past 370 years scholars reading Isaac Newton's Principia have had to puzzle through a translation that hasn't been updated since Alexander Pope published the first "compleat" collection of his poetry...
...only attempt to modernize the work in the past 370 years was a 1934 revision of Andrew Motte's 1729 translation...
...rally last Friday and an endorsement by the Kennedy School of Government student government put more pressure on the University and its Living Wage taskforce. The University is expected to respond to janitorial demands for a $10-per-hour wage on Nov. 1. Yet if Harvard's past is any indication, the University will outsource yet another non-educational university function, and the Living Wage Campaign will be handed another defeat. And soon after that a strange thing may happen: without improving the compensation for those who work at Harvard, the University may be able to claim a payroll compliant...
...past two years, however, the department has nearly doubled its score. With a ranking of 3.38, the department is the major success story of this year's advising survey...
...History department attributes the poor showing on this report to problems with the advising system in the past...