Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...thing that many probably over-looked was the makeup of the Crimson defense on Saturday. Three of the four starters--Bill Bennett, Don Gogel, and John Cosentino--are sophomore who were considered question marks earlier in the spring because of their inexperience on the varsity level...
Wilcox had no comment on the petition except to say that "starting a department or a committee is a hard thing...
...deplore your administration's weakness and the indifference of the vast majority which allowed such a thing to happen unopposed...
...year 1692 was a very bad year for the town of Salem, Mass. During a summer of superstitious hysteria, grim events took place there that have permanently tarnished the popular American memory of its Puritan past. According to widely accepted tradition, the whole thing was whipped up by Cotton Mather and the lesser clergymen of a frowning theocracy. Before it was over, the story goes, 19 men and women were convicted and hanged as witches, and one man was pressed to death beneath large rocks for refusing to plead. The tradition holds that the executions were the result...