Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team's progress will be put to the test when Harvard meets Williams and B.C. on William's home course tomorrow...
...convicted felons from owning broadcast properties? If we persisted in publishing the Pentagon Papers, the deputy attorney general went on, and if we refused to turn them over to the Justice Department, we were laying ourselves wide open to criminal prosecution (as distinct from the civil suit then in progress to prevent us from publishing the papers) under the Espionage...
When his American teammates proposed the normal noon-time nourishment for red-blooded Americans, McDonald's, Crimson center Adrian Tew, the sole Englishman in Harvard's fifteen, reminded them of their manners (quitting the field and the Princeton-Columbia game in progress in favor of the Big Mac constitutes the height of discourtesy) and their morals with a resounding an swer: "Eat beer...
...When I had him in my class, 17 out of the 30 children had reading problems, and I was allowed only one hour a day for reading." Despite Lois Stalvey's efforts, Josh-too proud to accept help and burdened by the school's indifference-made no progress in reading. After a final brush with a teacher a few weeks before the end of the school year, he was transferred to an all-black school noted for its gang fights and low academic achievement...
Heavy Odds. Macaulay can be as hard to take in retrospect as he often must have been in person. Born in 1800, he seems to exemplify almost everything about the 19th century that the 20th century cannot forgive. He was an optimist who summed up history thus: "The great progress goes on." Against heavy odds, John Clive, a professor of history and literature at Harvard, manages to build a respectable case for a respectable Macaulay. Ten years ago Clive's Macaulay might have earned equally admiring reviews in the back pages of literary periodicals, then sunk like a Victorian...