Word: progenitor
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...fuller sense, however, it was America's 1950s economic boom that proved the Interstates' true progenitor. The Federal-Aid Highway Act, passed by Congress and signed into law by Eisenhower on June 29,1956, allocated $25 billion to pay 90% of the costs of a 41,000-mile "National System of Interstate and Defense Highways," to be completed...
...thesis, with issues such as the loss of a chapter due to computer problems, he “couldn’t have had a more supportive adviser” than Richard F. Thomas, who chairs the Classics department.The winning submissions this year ranged from research on progenitor cells and signal pathways to explorations of Pindar’s odes and creative writing, such as Elinathan N. Ohiomoba’s piece “Through a Mirror Darkly.”The Hoopes Prize is “important because I feel that it’s very different...
...very name of the U.S. customary units’ progenitor should be enough to elicit the contempt and ire of Harvard students, but alas, for the most part they remain blissfully unconcerned. There is no student group lobbying for inclusive and internationalist measurements (although I’m told that some members on the Curricular Review are critical of the Imperial system’s “approaches to measuring”). No one seems to be concerned that Harvard students measure the volume of beer in gallons and barrels, not in liters. No one bats an eye when...
Core Curriculum, use those modes of inquiry of yours to look at the opus that brought your predecessor into being. Your progenitor, Core, is caricatured as archaic and uncouth, but the issues we grapple with today—internationalism, ethnocentrism, post-modernism—are all addressed in The Red Book with surprising comprehension, even if unfashionable “ism”-less terms are used...
Every Neil Young album arrives with a question: which Neil this time? the folkie? The grunge progenitor? The acoustic country guy? Or the avant-gardist whose sonic violence can make instruments--and sometimes fans--cry out for mercy? For his 31st album, Prairie Wind, out Sept. 27, it's yet another Neil Young: a mortal one. In March, Young was told he had a brain aneurysm, and Prairie Wind poured out of him in the week between diagnosis and his undergoing surgery. Naturally, there are songs about death and loneliness, but the album, one of the most melodic...