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Word: third (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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This article is designed to explain how to achieve the third answer to this perplexing problem by the use of the vague generality, the artful equivocation, and the overpowering assumption...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Are Exams Getting You Down? | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

There is a third method of dealing with examination questions-that is by use of the overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it is pretty obvious that the vague generality is the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it so obvious? As a matter of fact, it isn't so obvious, but rather just an arbitrary point from which to start. That is an example of an unwarranted assumption...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Are Exams Getting You Down? | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...printing office, and some rooms of the CRIMSON completed this floor. Above in the hall now used as freshman dining rooms, was a living room. An athletes' training table occupied what is now the Union kitchen. Upstairs, a library of 25,000 volumes filled one room, while on the third floor were clubrooms. guest bedrooms. staff bedrooms, and the offices of the Harvard Monthly and the Advocate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Building is Now Center for Freshman Activities The Harvard Union was Begun as Part of a Crusade for Democracy | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...point below sea level, then lift two barges at a time to one of three deck levels, where they will be stored horizontally. General Dynamics is scheduled to deliver three SEEBEES to Lykes in late 1971 at a total cost (including 266 special barges) of $111 million. The third barge ship, the Stradler, designed by New York Engineer Frank Broes, will be a catamaran that will cradle ten barges between its twin hulls. The motorized barges, each holding 12,000 tons of cargo, will sail in under their own power through a bow door, sail out through a stern door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transportation: Barges That Cross the Ocean | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

...third episode that keeps Spirits alive. Never Bet the Devil Your Head is Federico Fellini's first film since Juliet of the Spirits, and it is a 40-minute excursion across the surreal landscape of his boundless imagination. Never centers on a washed-up Shakespearean actor named Toby Dammit (Terence Stamp) who has come to Rome to star in "the first Catholic Western." He is hounded by his own self-contempt and haunted by a vision of a corrupt cupid from hell, a devil in crinoline (Marina Yaru), who appears before him bouncing a large and somehow ominous white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Two Dead Spirits Out of Three | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

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