Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Deaths from cancer have increased in the past century because people are living longer, Cairns said, adding that cancer is a disease that primarily affects older people...
Whatever success the Harvard baseball team experienced in the past was many times in spite of the man at the helm. Loyal Park, who coached the Crimson for the decade preceeding Nahigian, was a sound fundamentalist but could never talk straight to a Harvard...
Nahigian doesn't want to hear about the past. "I'm an optimist," he says, and as the new patriarch of the Harvard baseball heritage, he has the chance to redirect the disposition of the program in a positive...
MASTER THAT HE WAS, Shakespeare still didn't begin his career writing masterpieces, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona gives proof to that. In the past, critics spent a good deal of time trying to prove that "someone else" had written the parts of this play that are confusing, stiff, or downright silly. But even Shakespeare was once young and fallible, and this play is generally accepted now as a very early--if not the first--work of a great writer still marshalling his powers...
...sooner does Proteus make a lame apology than Valentine forgives him all, and offers to give him Silvia in the bargain. Deus ex Machina, in the form of the Duke, restores order, and all the right couples reunite happily, apparently suffering from collective amnesia as far as the past four acts are concerned...