Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Derek C. Bok, assistant professor of Law and second speaker at the forum, pointed out that by this reasoning public sentiment was made to appear similar to compulsory arbitration. But public pressure is not really very effective, he contended...
...Harvard-Leningrad arrangement and similar programs involving Columbia and Moscow, Yale and Kiev, and Indiana and Tashkent, take place under the Lacey-Zaroubin cultural exchange agreement between the two countries, which was extended for two more years last Saturday...
Many astronomers argue that only colossal pride prevents men on Earth from concluding that there are other people on other planets. In the Milky Way alone, there are probably billions of planets revolving around stars similar to the sun. A conservative guess is that 100,000 of the planets support some form of life. It is an easy step from there to conclude that they support rational creatures and a civilization...
About 250 students will be housed in each of the two new colleges. Their rooms, hardly any two of them similar, are variations on a basic polygonal plan, look out on courts and open passageways that Saarinen feels are "not unlike a small Italian hill-town street." The interiors, done in stone, oak and plaster, will be designed to suggest the scholar's study rather than the clubman's rumpus room...
Japan's famed culture-pearl industry produces pearls of similar quality, but the oysters suited to Japan's waters rarely develop a pearl bigger than two-fifths of an inch in diameter, and take between five and seven years in the process. By contrast, Australia's giant "silver lips" oyster shells are as big as dinner plates, can produce pearls twice as big as Japanese pearls in less than two years. The quality is so high that experts cannot tell Kuri Bay's from the best natural pearls without...