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When anti-Communist hysteria reached its peak under McCarthy's one-man Senate committee, Griswold appeared on Edward R. Murrow's well-known television program "See It Now" and denounced the "corruptive investigating practices of headline-seeking Congressional committees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Griswold, Law School Legend, Dies at 90 | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...will be looking to peak in two weeks against Western Ontario," Ben Shachar said. "It is a very big match...

Author: By W. STEPHEN Venable, | Title: Men's Squash Defeats Tough Bear Squad, 7-2 | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

Like so many talented young taiwanese, Yuan T. Lee came to the U.S. to study, and then to stay. He earned a Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He climbed the academic ladder. Eventually, he won a Nobel Prize. Then earlier this year, at the peak of his career, the 57-year- old chemist made a sweeping U-turn and headed back home to run Taiwan's prestigious Academia Sinica, a burgeoning collection of 21 research institutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tigers in the Lab | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...Harvard's credit, it is better to peak late in the season than to not peak at all, and the Crimson are certainly traversing the upside of the proverbial mountain...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: M. Soccer to Play B.U. in Tourney First Round | 11/15/1994 | See Source »

Gloom never settled so quickly, before the foot lights as when Silver decides to preach issues. Pterodactyls does not descend emotional crests, it, plunges from them. In a Kathleen Turneresque growl, Grace bear down on Tommy with a triumphant speech, reaching the peak of her comic crescendo only to be interrupted by a gun discharging upstairs. Utter silence falls with the curtain as Todd intones. "Suddenly it became very cold." Manipulation reigns as Silver's king principle of craft...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: Pterodactyls Never Manages to Soar | 11/3/1994 | See Source »

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