Word: superiorities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sheldon Diets '41 will ask the Middlesex County Superior Court to issue an injunction against further construction of the Harvard Cooperative Society's Palmer St. annex...
...schools to take a much higher proportion of scholarship students, is determined to fulfill Labor's goal to rid education of the so-called "eleven-plus" examination that in state-run schools forces children apart at the age of eleven-the top group streaming off to the academically superior "grammar schools," and the rest going on to conventional secondary schools. He will also implement Wilson's decision to open no new universities for the next ten years and instead to pour money and talent into expanding the existing ones...
...With a probe-or sometimes with two, one in each lobe-held at this freeze level for 15 minutes, Dr. Rand's group has safely achieved the desired degree of pituitary destruction in more than 50 cases. Other neurosurgeons agree that for the pituitary, the supercold technique is "superior to all the rest"-such as scooping out the pituitary with a tiny, long-handled spoon, always with the danger that too much of the pituitary would be left...
Evaluating the same testimony, Superior Court Judge Frederick Mahl, who presided at the trial, came to a different conclusion about other claims made in Steele's suit. The judge said that Steele had not convinced him of his founder's role or the promise of stock, turned down his bid for the stock itself, now worth $24.5 million after splits and stock dividends. Mahl's ruling raises the possibility that he may yet throw out the jury's verdict. Steele, the man who had been derisively described in court as the gladhander, door-opener, court jester...
...University, who in 1924 proved that there were ionized layers in the upper atmosphere by bouncing short-length radio waves off them, a technique that made worldwide radio communication practicable, led directly to Britain's development of radar (thus giving the R.A.F. a crucial advantage over the numerically superior Luftwaffe), and won for the pioneering scientist the 1947 Nobel Prize in physics; of a stroke; in Edinburgh...