Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some other councillors laughed up their sleeves. "It's a joke, interviewing these characters from all over--Alaska, Montana, and everywhere," Vellucci said in private. The East Cambridge councillor related with relish the council's interview with an applicant from a western state. "We asked him if he had any experience in arbitration. He answered that the City owned all the bars out there and one day the bartenders went on strike. But this guy fixed things up," Vellucci roared...
Dean Buck's attempt at such a definition in the 1940's is best seen in the General Education Program and in its attempts to pull Faculty and Curriculum away form specialization and the graduate school to create a non-specialized college education covering the heritage of Western thought. Dean Bundy in the 1950's emphasized the Honors Program and created Sophomore Standing and Freshman Seminars--steps towards specialization...
BEYOND the Paris the world knows -resplendent Boulevards and leafy esplanades, elegant restaurants and sunny sidewalk cafes-lies a ring of small communities with names like Aubervilliers and St. Ouen, Boulogne-Billancourt and St. Denis. No soaring monuments to Western civilization grace their drab and grimy streets. Instead, the stigmata of the worst of the 20th century abound: the sprawl of brick factories, the grey, faceless slabs of low-income housing projects. All day big diesel trucks thunder up and down belching fumes, their oversize tires slapping the ancient cobblestones. This is the Red Belt of Paris, so called because...
...decision to split in two. "Nobody," explained one club owner, "wants to finish twelfth in a twelve-team league." But the way the divisions are set up, two clubs could wind up hurting in first. The Minnesota Twins and Chicago White Sox are assigned to the league's western division, along with two expansion teams - in Kansas City and Seattle - and the lackluster Oakland Athletics and California Angels. They will play 21 fewer home games against the more attractive easte:rn teams - Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Baltimore, New York and Washington - and the loss of those games is likely...
Eastern teams, however, have never been National golf powers. Since its inception, the NCAA tournament has been dominated by Southern and Western teams that practice year-round...