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When Cadiff graduated, Prince offered him the position of assistant stage manager for On the Twentieth Century...
...fall of 50 we all moved into the various houses. I landed at Eliot where the tutor was much loved. He was a Greek scholar and sometimes forgot that all of us lived in the twentieth century. He would, over a glass of sherry, refer to the traffic along the river as those boxes traveling from nowhere to some place else! Also resident in Eliot House was a senior editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica. He used to do his morning exercises in the buff and one day the biddy (a term used to describe the wonderful Irish maids...
After graduating from Dartmouth, Kirby came to Harvard for graduate study in history, earning his master’s in 1974 and his doctorate in 1981 for a dissertation on Chinese modernization in the first half of the twentieth century...
...scholarly pursuits have focused on the history and economic development of China. He is currently finishing work on A World Transformed, a global history of the twentieth century he is writing with his wife and Krupp Professor of History Charles S. Maier...
...history, it has been implicitly understood that the Second Amendment protects the guns rights of individuals. Last week’s Justice Department announcement merely supported a fundamental freedom that many jurists had accepted until some concerns arose over the precise language of firearm rights in the early twentieth century...