Word: peers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some archaeologists suspect that others still lie undisturbed behind tons of lime stone and granite blocks. Egypt's pyramids may soon yield their remaining secrets. In a speech before the American Physical Society last week, University of California Physicist Luis Alvarez reported that his ingeniously conceived project to peer into the pyramids with cosmic rays is about to get under...
GUMMIDGE: I am not everyone else. I reply: "The student in question is performing minimally for his peer group and is an emerging underachiever...
STUDENT: Must I verbalize Jargon only to my peer group...
...Peer. Wehner holds a special terror for the Pankow regime: before the war, he was in the top echelon of the German Communist Party. He was Ulbricht's pal and peer, gave orders to many of the men who now make up East Germany's coterie of bosses. Arrested in Sweden in 1941, he renounced Communism from his jail cell and was expelled from the party. Ever since, his former comrades have regarded him as a traitor and a menace. Twice their gunmen have tried to kill him, and his appointment as All-German Affairs Minister brought bitter...
...possibility of creating some kind of student disciplinary committee, F. Skiddy von Stade, dean of Freshmen, said that he didn't think the undergraduates would allow it. "It has been my experience that any kind of peer group disciplinary system is apt to clobber the student much harder than the bureaucracy." Dean Ford agreed that "students hang each other amazingly cheerfully...