Word: urn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Schoenberg in music, Adler and Freud in psychology. There were also dozens of writers and journalists, including the brilliant, mordant social critic Karl Kraus, whose anti-paper Die Fackel (The Torch) was dedicated to making its readers "morally aware of the essential distinction between the chamber pot and an urn...
...usually takes two or three carts to hold each Justice's material; 20 or more of them surround the massive mahogany table and nine high-backed chairs by the time the first Justices arrive and begin making small talk while pouring themselves cups of coffee from a silver urn...
Tentatively scheduled for May or June 1975, the mission will begin with the launch of a two-stage Apollo Sat urn rocket from Cape Kennedy into a low (110 nautical miles) orbit above the earth. At a greater tilt to the equator than the orbits used during the U.S. moon shots, it will carry Apollo directly over the Soviets' Tyuratam cosmo drome in central Asia. From there, the Russians will loft a two-man Soyuz spacecraft into a slightly higher orbit of 145 miles. Apollo will then begin a sequence of maneuvers, lasting another day or so, to raise...
Faced with a showdown, the Social Democratic leaders decided on an unusual tactic. Fearing defections from their own ranks, they ordered their Deputies to refrain from voting. Thus anyone who approached the voting urn from the Social Democratic benches would be presumed to be a traitor to his party. However, Vice Chancellor...
...urn stood on a table at the south side of the room, under the portrait of President Emeritus Nathan M. Pusey '28, the last man to preside over a Faculty meeting in the room...