Word: sinkings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Strictly speaking, a "merger" between Harvard and Radcliffe would be a legal, corporate affair: Radcliffe would stop paying a fee to Harvard to cover the maintenance of its buildings and the billing of its students; it would sell its property to Harvard; and it would sink its endowment into Harvard's Nothing more...
...Land of Hope and Glory and sprouts tiny Union Jacks. The set is a top-floor apartment in an architecturally senile London building. The ceiling leaks plaster, the walls are held upright by a huge wall divider, and one can step unwarily on a rug, as Eugene does, and sink a foot or so through the rotting floorboards...
...attack; in Mexico City. As a director of the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory, he made a number of important discoveries, including satellites of both Uranus (1948) and Neptune (1949). When, in the early 1960s, other scientists were concerned that a spacecraft landing on the moon would sink in an ocean of dust, Kuiper correctly described the lunar surface as resembling "crunchy snow...
...scoring a layup for the Eagles on a fast break. Harvard regained the lead when junior guard Mike Griffin, working on Carrington, scored an easy layup. The Crimson held the lead until the Eagles connected for a go-ahead basket resulting from a steal by Weldon. Carrington proceeded to sink another basket, insuring a B.C. victory...
...Sink Navy...