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...only in America were immigrants truly unhooked from history. In his classic study The Uprooted, Oscar Handlin observed: "The immigrants could not impose their own ways upon society; but neither were they constrained to conform to those already established. To a significant degree, the newest Americans had a wide realm of choice...
...Olympic Games, particularly in the lower-weights, has made the sport of boxing bigger than just the heavyweight division. Names like Seales, Leonard and Davis are almost as well known as their heavyweight counterparts. People are beginning to realize that the lower weights are no longer the realm of foreigners, especially Latin Americans...
...affectionately nicknamed "fiery face" by his subjects. This decree, passed by the Scottish Parliament in 1457, outlawed the playing of golf with the stern invocation that "the futeball and golfe be utterly cryed downe and not to be used." James was increasingly alarmed by the golf mania sweeping his realm, which was distracting able-bodied men from the archery practice required during wartime. "Fiery face" later met an untimely and befitting death when he was killed by a cannon that blew up while he was inspecting the muzzle...
William L. Bruce '46, the vice dean, described Ferguson's appointment as being in the "general realm" of possibility, adding he thought the appointment would be "super...
...true confessions--and this tendency becomes an overly heavy counterweight to abstract statistics. Her opening and closing chapters raise questions about the societal foundations underlying women's place in the labor fore, and the in-depth vignettes on each occupation bring up points of special concern to each realm of work. But the cinematic style--emotion-laden frames in sequence, too many, often too melodramatic--obscure the real questions: why are many of these women leading unfulfilling lives? Howe's work raises many disturbing questions that she never quite answers...