Word: types
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people will associate the book with imaginative commercial ventures like Erichvon Daniken's Chariots of the Gods rather than seeing it as a serious scholarly work. To prevent such offhand dismissal of his theory, Jaynes asked his publisher for complete control over the book's format. He chose the type style, designed the cover, and insisted on the rather ponderous title and thorough footnoting. He says the book's present appearance clearly shows he is "not trying to sell books but to contribute to knowledge." "Books are much too important to leave to publishers," he adds with a grin...
...could have notes here," he says, gesturing toward Frost's clipboard. "As you know, I've participated in all these broadcasts without a note in front of me." As this type of pounding comes to a merciful end, Nixon looks like a beaten...
When a team of Massachusetts General Hospital physicians discovered evidence of a link between a certain type of vaginal cancer and a synthetic estrogen widely taken by pregnant women over two decades, it was obvious that medicine had created a hormonal time bomb. The cancer showed up not in the women who had used diethylstilbestrol, or DES, but in their daughters-some 15 or 20 years after birth. Their sons are apparently not threatened by cancer, but there are indications that in some cases they may also be affected-by genital deformities or sterility. By 1971, when the federal Food...
...that does not make it any easier for the students themselves. "The trouble is that dancers at Harvard lead a split life," Chin said. "From my experience, a professional type of dancer's life is not compatible with life as a Harvard student. Conceivably you could be preparing to be a dancer while at Harvard, because dance takes a lot more than dance training, but it's difficult...
...because of its composition and history, this Class of 1951 is considered normal, the world around us is not. We may be thought of now as pre-war in type, but future history may refer to our class as pre-war in actual fact. Perhaps our peaceful years at Harvard shall prove to have been only the years of prelude to another world conflict--a world conflict even more destructive of humanity than the Second World War so recently concluded. It is to guard against and prevent such a Third World War that many of us here today shall soon...