Word: weights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Asia's burden of religious, linguistic and racial antagonism is added the weight of history. New grievances as well as old goad Asians to seek what Calcutta Philosopher Abu Sayeed Ayub calls "the appeasement of the ghosts of our ancestors by slaughtering members of another community." Conquerors have come and gone across Asia, sowing rancor as they marched. For generations after the Burmese raped Siam, Thai women wore crewcuts to avoid being hauled off by the hair. During World War II, brutality by the Japanese earned them loathing throughout Asia; until recently, any Japanese who toured the Philippines risked...
...earliest signs are deceptive because they are so common, and rarely indicate serious disorders. Even then, heart disease may be misdiagnosed as pneumonia. But a baby may be colicky and irritable, or have spells of rapid breathing, or be a feeding problem and fail to gain weight from a variety of benign causes. "It is not in the thinking of most doctors that a feeding problem has anything to do with heart disease," said Dr. McNamara. But in these thousands of cases every year, it should...
...young man whom we recognized as a recent Harvard graduate joined us. He had changed since we saw him last. Now he was extremely thin with a sallow face and bright eyes. His clothes were baggy, showing ho much weight he had lost. He asked whether we had any questions...
There, the mother tongue had already begun its centuries-long elaboration. Successive waves of invaders-the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons, the Norsemen, the Normans-all added new words, constructions and usages to the pot. Beneath the weight of this hybridization, the island's forerunner language, Celtic, vanished almost without a trace...
Reading folders is the only way to handle the serious problem of how to weight subjective information, according to David K. Smith '58, assistant director of Admissions and Freshman Scholarships. He calls folder reading a "luxury" in Harvard admissions that has become the only way to give so many candidates personal attention...