Word: rosetta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discovered a slab of rock over 150 years ago, he hardly suspected that his discovery would help break the mystery of ancient hieroglyphs. Although Harvard's esoteric acronyms such as WOE and GSTFU are not impossible to comprehend, a rundown of the University's secret code, a la the Rosetta Stone, can be as useful to newcomers as a map Cambridge...
...just a few followers, carefully concealing his departure from the rest of the expeditionary force. The latter would not have been in a better position to bring back any loot, as they made the trip on British ships after capitulation. What they might have gathered−including the famous Rosetta Stone−eventually found its way to the British Museum...
...persistent outsider can decipher a small part of Harvard's financial hieroglyphics, but even such a hard-earned glimpse may give a misleading idea of what's really written on the Rosetta stone. This article is offered as a humble effort at adding a little light to the great wealth of darkness that surrounds everything having to do with Harvard's riches...
BEFORE man's first lunar landing, most scientists thought of the moon as a Rosetta stone: an untouched repository of precious clues that would help reveal its origin and history, to say nothing of providing new insights about the evolution of the earth and other planets. Now, after five successful landings, many of their fondest hopes have been realized. The Apollo missions have brought back 594 lbs. of lunar rocks and soil, thousands of photographs and a flood of data that have changed some of man's basic concepts about the moon. But many of the mysteries remain...
...ROSETTA B. MOORE Columbus...