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Word: perring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...today, other nations value their money in terms of the U.S. dollar, which is itself valued in terms of gold. The dollar's acceptability in world finance rests on the U.S. Treasury's pledge to redeem dollars held by foreign governments for gold at an unchanging $35 per...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Monetary System: What's Wrong and What Might Be Done | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

Harvard's conventional wisdom says that power over undergraduates' social affairs is vested in the COH. This is about 90 per cent patent untruth, though it is probably to the advantage of the administration to allow such a false impression to continue. Discontented students will waste all their time trying to deal with the antiquated Committee. In fact, the COH has a great deal of power only by comparison to the absolute impotency of student groups, like...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Alexander, | Title: Power at Harvard | 11/27/1968 | See Source »

Mirko is a most wordlessly cloquent grammar teacher. He visits all the classes in the VAC occasionally. When he dropped in on one VES 20 section he moved a one inch black square into a big white area on a figure-ground exercise. Instantly the design improved 100 per cent -- you knew what "activating space" meant and what a square could do, although it would take ten pages to explain it in writing...

Author: By Nina Bernslein, | Title: Mirko at the VAC: A Magical Mystery Tour | 11/25/1968 | See Source »

...combat the challenge, Harvard offers a defense which leads the nation in fewest points allowed per game...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Harvard, Yale Clash for Ivy Title | 11/23/1968 | See Source »

Harvard has had a certain amount of difficulty in scoring touchdowns. Quarterback George Lalich has completed 50 per cent of his passes, but has only three touchdown passes. Against Princeton, for example, Harvard managed only three points out of three first period forays inside the Tiger 25 yard line...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Harvard, Yale Clash for Ivy Title | 11/23/1968 | See Source »

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