Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is an old story to frontier historians, but until recently archaeologists have not known how many Indians had settled in pre-smallpox days along the Missouri River. The Smithsonian men have already found the sites of 500 sizable fortified villages, some of them with 400 lodges inside their walls. Had it not been for smallpox, the early settlers would have been tough adversaries for the wandering Sioux...
...Ph.D. During his study and particularly in the two years he spent abroad--one in '28 "bumming around Europe" and one in '34 as a Coolidge Fellow in Greece--Pusey's interest shifted from English to classical history. Delving further and further into antiquity, Pusey found pre-history and the Bronze Age especially engrossing. But in his later teaching experience, Pusey seldom has had opportunity to draw on his extensive study of the classics. Early in his career, Pusey became involved with the humanities and the movement to make liberal education truly free of narrowing specialization...
...Russell Thornley Sharpe, and Israel Solomon Stamm. The coming years would be hard, but the Class had Harvard diplomas, and that would help.Twenty-five years afterward members of the Class get together to discuss their reunion. WILLIAM SALTONSTALL, DON HURLEY, FRED WEED, and BOB GREGG were photographer at a pre-reunion meeting last December. Saltonstall and Weed are both headmasters of Exeter and Roxbury Latin, respectively...
...Ph.D. During his study and particularly in the two years he spent abroad--one in '28 "bumming around Europe" and one in '34 as a Coolidge Fellow in Greece--Pusey's interest shifted from English to classical history. Delving further and further into antiquity, Pusey found pre-history and the Bronze Age especially engrossing. But in his later teaching experience, Pusey seldom has had opportunity to draw on his extensive study of the classics. Early in his career, Pusey became involved with the humanities and the movement to make liberal education truly free of narrowing specialization...
...grants pending defense motions to dismiss the charges, the defense may take still another couple of years to present its case in the marathon trial. "Thus," speculated the New York Times last week, "the life expectancy of the judge, who in this case has already spent five years in pre-trial and trial proceedings, becomes another complicating factor in antitrust jurisprudence...