Word: realms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bordering upon the realm of incredibility, that a nation that landed an army upon the sands of Normandy before the eyes of one of the finest armies in the world's history would now require the daily bombing of a small and insecure nation to remove its troops from Viet...
Harvard does have an outside chance for first place in the League if Yale beats Princeton today, but the Tigers have already disposed of Harvard and the Crimson defeated the Elis on Wednesday, 19-15. "It's not beyond the realm of possibility for Yale to win and Waterman [the Yale coach] in an all-out effort, is shuffling his lineup to give them every possible chance of an upset," Lee said...
Which would imply that life itself is devoid of meanings: truths and insights, belong to the realm of statements about life. The Miss America show is more significant that Miss America herself; Time's cover article on Love Story and the Return to Romanticism says more about America than Love Story itself; and Love Story , in turn, says more about greed and obtuseness than Erich Segal's 5' 10" body. Its only a conjecture, but maybe the chicken gumbo sitting in your kitchen cupboard tells less about ourselves in this age of media and masscult than Warhols jazzy repro, resting...
...should the Queen be grievously affected by her loss of rights to hunt wherever she pleases, or to claim any sturgeon caught within her realm. The last sturgeon to be caught in British waters was indeed presented to the Queen in 1970, but the fish is rather scarce and besides, the Lord Chancellor whimsically suggested, it is in the process of being replaced as a delicacy "perhaps by canned tuna...
...common carrier" ruling, for instance, puts cable TV in an altogether different realm than network television by visualizing cable service in the same terms as telephone service; i.e., as a common carrier. This ruling precludes the possibility of censorship of any kind. Likewise, the FCC has gone a long way towards guaranteeing the decentralization of cable television by delegating the authority to grant franchises to local municipalities...