Word: war
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Holding in her own name a wealth of land, ships' cargoes, and bullion, she was able nearly to treble her estate within the next 20 years, directly profiting from the economic instability caused by the Long Parliament and the Civil War...
...war with academic tradition," was the way Abbott Lawrence Lowell described his 24 years as president of the University. But in those years, from May 1909 to May 1933, Lowell probably did more to determine the character of the College than any other president in Harvard's history...
While guiding the University through the chaotic two decades of the First World War, the roaring twenties, and the slump of the Depression, he stepped up such a building campaign that the College was never without a corps of plumbers, plasterers, and heavy construction workers. Significantly, more University buildings were erected during his administration than in all of Harvard's previous history...
...campaign really was over. His "war with academic tradition" had been in large part won. The academic reforms he demanded in his inaugural had become realities, the Houses he envisioned had been built, and the academic freedom he championed had been established. Whether he had changed student attitude or the character of student society as much as he liked to believe is debatable; that he had changed the face of Harvard...
FICTION 1. Advise and Consent, Drury (1) 2. Hawaii, Michener (5) 3. The War Lover, Hersey (6) 4. Poor No More, Ruark (2) 5. Exodus, Uris (4) 6. The Darkness and the Dawn, Costain (7) 7. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (8) 8. The Devil's Advocate, West (9) 9. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (3) 10. Return to Peyton Place, Metalious...