Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time coal bin and record storage center has become, this fall, the focus of a new College research project. "Unit B" of the University Health Services, using a $420,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health, has begun a program of testing freshmen to measure psychological and sociological changes during their undergraduate years...
...crowd of a hundred people braved the torrential wind and rain as they watched the home team put on its best defensive performance in years. Sharp tackling by wing-forwards Dick Williams and Dick Holmes stalled a New York threat in the second half and preserved the team's record of being unscored up on the ground...
Chapman said that he proposes to spread "Rocky and Victory" literature, to organize "Rallies for Rockefeller" wherever the governor speaks, and to plan campaigns in state primaries and G.O.P. state conventions. The organization will also take straw polls, sponsor speeches by prominent Rockefeller supporters, advertise the "Rockefeller Record," and carry out a campaign of letters to editors...
...Mailer speculates coyly about what future Ph.D. candidates will say of him, shoots back, wadded into spitballs, most of the unfavorable reviews he has received, and reacts with the fury of an upstaged diva to a photograph he considers ill-chosen. In effect, what Mailer has produced is a record of an artistic crackup. By the early 1950s the spare, controlled prose of The Naked and the Dead had turned sour and turgid, and its author was drifting in a haze of liquor, seconal and marijuana. Mailer has stopped using "the minor drugs," he says (although he believes that after...
...hatred but with love," the novel's underlying tone suggests an ex-worshipper stomping on a fallen idol). But strangely enough, the Atomic Energy Commission came to a very similar conclusion about Oppenheimer. In its own bureaucratic language, it also spoke about pride and arrogance of judgment: "The record shows that Dr. Oppenheimer has consistently placed himself outside the rules which govern others...