Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Physics 1 exam was cancelled while in progress yesterday because not enough copies of the test were prepared for all the students in the course...
Dartmouth, 3-0 this season, will be seeking its first triumph over the Crimson, which is 2-5, in years. "Harvard always runs well against us," Dartmouth Coach Ken Weinbel said yesterday. "I'm very impressed with the progress Harvard has made this season, and I don't anticipate an easy meet...
...then a partner in his own insurance agency. During the day Ives sold insurance, managed the firm, worked on a manual explaining how to induce potential customers to sit back under a barrage of "authoritative data" forcing them to acknowledge that life insurance was doing its part in "the progress of the greater life values." At night and on weekends, Ives wrote symphonies and songs and sonatas, which mostly didn't get played till years later because they upset listeners too much. Ives said his two careers complemented one another: he said it helped his music when...
Look at the Harlequins! purports to be a writer's memoirs, an "oblique autobiography," although at times the mask slips and we find ourselves looking over the narrator's shoulder at his memoirs-in-progress: "I was eighteen when the Bolshevist revolution struck--a strong and anomalous verb, I concede, used here solely for the sake of narrative rhythm." Sometimes, indeed, the effect is rather witty...
...making a series of independent judgements, but with the complex business of government, which may involve dealing simultaneously with a score of decisions and problems. You need allies--and not just on a single vote or on a single issue. Successful government--government which can offer both stability and progress--requires the development of a majority committed to reasonably common goals and ready to work out acceptable means to their achievement. Under our system of government, this can and should be the function of a political party...