Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past the Council has served a purpose within the Harvard community through its debates with University Hall on issues like parietal hours, board rates, and parking. Sometimes the students, through the Council, have won. And while no one can say for certain that the Student Council has prevented any riots it has served as a means by which student protests have reached the Administration. Those days are gone forever. Deans who believe they are helping students are not likely to listen to their troubles. Whatever influence the Council once had with the Administration as a student organization representing student sentiment...
Thus resolved, the young teacher set out for the University--in this case Harvard--to obtain his masters: a one-year-plan which burgeoned, kept him in Cambridge for five of the past six years, and has brought him here today. After getting his masters it seemed logical to remain and study for his orals, "then write a thesis while teaching at Exeter--lots of people do this." Then, when offered a teaching-fellow position and a berth at Leverett House (where he eventually became assistant senior tutor), he stayed and finished his thesis under Oscar Handlin (by this time...
...task will consist of reviewing the constitutionality of laws and of Parliament's standing orders. But this Council will not be a very big obstacle to a reassertion of Parliament's supremacy, if such a reassertion takes the form of unwritten customs and trusts, as it did in the past...
...police has resulted in greater confusion and a proliferation of tickets. Police officers have cited a number of apparently different violations on the tickets, leaving the receiver at a loss to determine the nature of his infraction. Among citations made for violations of this amended ordinance during the past few days...
Once the domain of oracles, astrologers, sooth-sayers, and writers of science fiction, the future is now much with many moderns. So much so that it takes half of Leningrad Popular Science Films Studio's production to get us out of the past. Billed as "Russian science fiction," the Brattle film is only partly that. After an account of the early struggles of the late Soviet scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a breathless rundown of recent rocket developments culminates at the magic date of October 4, 1957. As past becomes future, satellites flourish, Soviet citizens view the "other" side of the moon...