Word: presented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reader and Miss Seldes went home together after her evening performance, and she began to describe her career. The soliloquy soon disregards the rules of sequential narration, as if the speaker began to interrupt herself, linking events by theme rather than by time, injecting the insights of the present into the past...
...scheduled to open here in a few days. At a hostile and emotional City Council meeting, the scientists confronted the Cambridge community. After the dust settled, the council imposed a three-month moratorium on all recombinant DNA research in Cambridge while the Cambridge Experimental Review Board drew up the present city ordinance...
...discoveries which trace human evolution back two and three million years. The head of the highly successful and productive Koobi Fora project is Richard E. Leakey, son of the world-famous prehistorians Louis and Mary Leakey. In light of the Koobi Fora project's success, Leakey has decided to present his findings to the rest of the world in the form of easy-to-read, fairly short books...
...People of the Lake: Mankind and Its Beginnings (Leakey's second and latest book), which focuses on the Koobi Fora finds, is a credit to Leakey. Leakey and co-author Roger Lewin write intelligent, provocative prose and present their amazing discoveries to readers with just the right combination of lucidity and academic integrity...
...race was a nice present for the old man [coach Bill McCurdy]. It was his 64th birthday," captain Mark Meyer said after the meet. "Besides, he said that if we lost today he'd jump off the ski lift," Meyer added...