Word: thelot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Despite his extensive study of Harvard's juniorprofessors, Spence has avoided rhetoric orsweeping statements about the need to improve thelot of untenured professors. Instead, he quietlydismantled the old Graustein system, a rigidformula which for decades had determined how manysenior-level appointments a department could makeand when...
Said Sheridan L. Haines, who lives near thelot, "It was inevitable, and all we can do isaccept...
...first acts of rebellion in the camps were made possible by a miscalculation of Stalin in 1948. Desirous of worsening thelot of political prisoners, he established the Special Camps described in Solzhenitsyn's novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. For the first time, vast numbers of politicals (incorrigible "enemies of the people") were segregated from common criminals (redeemable "class allies"). Once free from the scourge of the murderers and thieves who terrorized them, the politicals gradually gained courage...
| 1 |