Word: weighted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this system of delegation and checks, student opinion can have considerable weight on any given issue. The sources of substantive power--the Administration and Faculty members--are accessible to students with only a few exceptions. Black students this spring have obtained a new field of concentration in Afro-American studies; the Harvard Policy Committee has successfully promoted a fourth-course pass-fail plan, an extension of the independent study program, a reduction in the language department, and an elimination of the junior general examinations in History; an ad hoc committee issued a report recommending weekday parietal extensions from...
Dunlop agrees that the attempt here was for a "blue-ribbon" panel, whose recommendations--which obviously would lead to major changes if accepted--would carry strong weight with the Faculty...
Surface is just cynical (he is completely intimidated by what he calls the "tradition, wealth, and influence" of the Ivy League--something he can't have). And he writes as if the whole weight of human morality and the righteousness of every established institution were behind his opinions. When I think of the hate and self- righteous anger that some readers of this book will feel toward people with beards, black people, and intellectuals, I find no reason to be surprised at the most horrible things that American society does to its best people...
...fact, chains have been unobtrusively hanging around for years. Chanel, for instance, has long fashioned rope necklaces out of tiny links, which she also uses stitched to the inside hem of suit jackets to add weight. Today's big chain reaction began in 1966, when Yves St. Laurent designed a belt made out of bold brass circles that quickly became a boutique bestseller. Now St. Laurent's latest belts are twice as wide, and there is hardly a jewelry designer who is not now clanking out chains...
...Andover, Nosal is known for hanging the lighter 28-1b. weight up on their indoor upper track with a heave that was disqualified because it couldn't be measured. During the spring, he returned to Andover to throw the 12-1b. hammer 219', over a fence and ten feet farther than the national high school record...