Word: wake
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That is a historical irony. Before the rise of Protestant liberalism in the 19th century, when scholars began to question such keystone doctrines as the deity of Jesus and his resurrection, U.S. Protestantism was generally evangelical. Then came the Civil War and in its wake, the growth of Northern cities and the drift of Northern Protestantism into a more liberal camp...
Both Horner and the trustees are aware of the amorphousness of Radcliffe's connection to undergraduates in the wake of non-merger merger. Over the past two years a panel of the trustees--the Futures Committee--has been grappling with just this problem. According to Susan Lyman '49, chairman of the trustees, a report of that committee is expected to be released sometime this fall with suggestions an approach that fits well with the peace-general direction of Radcliffe's future...
Jerome Miller's method may have left Massachusetts with a $600,000 balance of unpaid bills in his wake, yet that 50% reduction in recidivism probably saved the state millions of dollars in terms of taxes it would have spent for institutionalization...
Perhaps, but the peso's sharp devaluation could also do harm in Mexico. Prices of the $6.6 billion worth of consumer and capital goods that Mexico imports will rise sharply in peso terms. In the wake of Beteta's announcement, many sales clerks worked until midnight changing the price tags on merchandise. At the Puerta de Liverpool department store, for example, refrigerators went up 20% overnight, color TV sets more than 30%. To ease the burden, Echeverría has already promised raises for workers, civil servants and pensioners-a generous but inflationary move...
...interpolated tales are simply dull. Others are tricked out with bad mannerisms. One limps along in rhymed couplets. Another makes extensive-and pointless-use of comic-strip balloons filled with dialogue. A young black performer talks and thinks in a free-associating patois lifted and badly fumbled from Finnegans Wake...