Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world. It has become too new and too big. He sees its future as dim: ". . . the parts will being to drop off, as the autonomous professor has begun to do; or go into spells of paralysis, as the student riots have shown to be possible. Apathy and secession will take care of the rest, until a stump of something once alive is left to vegetate on the endowment or the annual tax subsidy. The change will be gradual enough for everything to adjust to it, and the versity, neither uni nor multi, will survive, in utility a vestige just next...
Captain John Levin, the Crimson's self styled "tall lanky Californian," spotted Navy captain Bob Cowin a first set triumph, then rallied to take the next two, 6-4, 7-5 to avenge his loss to Cowin in Cambridge last spring...
...Brooke (R-Mass.) said that he has consulted with officials of the Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development. Brooke said that he learned that DOT officials are "now proceeding with a re-evaluation of the Inner Belt program and that until that study is completed [which will take more than a year] no decision will be taken on this controversial question...
Thrilling as the fencing and tennis wins were, the lacrosse triumph was probably even more exhilarating. The court-men's upset was, for one thing, accomplished against a team rated as one of the favorites to take the league title...
...Zero small boys at a boarding school, beginning with minor acts of rebellion, eventually take over. They have no particular reason to do so; the school's teachers and officers are somewhat oppressive, but far more grotesque. All their actions indeed seem to spring from very visible eccentricities or deformities. The children likewise act from the nature of their visual appearance. Small and compact, they are energy-filled balls of light (their clothes are dazzling white) which dash around destructively. The adults are purely objects of satire; the kids, devils...