Word: similars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last spring the Committee of Fifteen, exercising similar powers, separated five students and required another eight to withdraw for a semester or a year for their roles in the occupation of University Hall last April. In addition, the Committee recommended that the Faculty "dismiss" three others-a more severe punishment which the Faculty approved-require 20 to withdraw (but suspended their sentences) and put 99 students under warnings...
University police did not order persons to leave Holyoke Center while they conducted their search yesterday, although last month Holyoke Center was cleared twice and 1737 Cambridge Street once during similar bomb scarces...
...generals' argument. He announced that the U.S. would never use germ warfare-either offensively or defensively-and ordered the existing stocks of deadly toxins destroyed. As for remaining lethal chemical weapons, the President reiterated the longstanding American policy that they would only be used in retaliation for a similar attack...
...Similar complaints have been raised about Shakespeare's efforts to purify the books distributed to USIA libraries. Authors John Updike, John Kenneth Galbraith and Philip Roth, among others, have been blacklisted for not presenting the most admirable views of American character. But blacklisting was not Shakespeare's idea; it was started 15 years ago, and has been continued fitfully since. Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night was first banned during the Johnson years...
...muffled air compressor from Germany. With a well-honed sense of the dramatic, he demonstrated it beside the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center. Though the machine did not operate sotto voce, neither did it bellow. One U.S. manufacturer, Ingersoll-Rand, was sufficiently impressed to start producing a similar line of quiet compressors (from $30 to $4,500 more expensive than the unmuffled varieties...