Word: correspondents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theory is thus neither true nor false; it simply works or it doesn't. Now it is true that many scientists (including myself) believe that their theories closely approximate or correspond to "reality," but this is an act of faith, for no "proof" can be adduced for or against it. Scientific beliefs can conflict with religious beliefs, but the large number of modified or even discarded scientific theories should serve as a useful warning relating to Dr. Van Ness's pronouncement. We should be very careful about junking our deep, personal religious committals because of certain presently held...
Working with the University's International Students Office, PBH will give volunteers the names of foreign students coming here for the first time in the fall who have expressed an interest in learning more about life at Harvard and in the United States. The volunteers will then correspond with the foreign students during the summer, answering questions about American life...
...McWThirters now comb thousands of journals to keep their superlatives up to date, correspond with authorities in no countries, scan heaps of musty books to track down obscure points. To determine that Henry I was the leading sire of illegitimate children among British monarchs (at least 20, by six mistresses), they consulted twelve volumes of peerage records. And when all else fails, they turn to an army of volunteer assistants, including a mathematics expert lodged in Broadmoor criminal lunatic asylum...
...Zealand. The pound note would be scrapped, and the 10-shilling note become the standard denomination, while shillings would represent ten penny units like the dime; the present sixpenny bit would thus represent 5 pence and be equivalent to the U.S. nickel, while the half crown would correspond to a quarter. Britons are divided over nomenclature for the new 10-shilling bill. Some want to call it a "Britannia," others a "noble"-after an English coin that was worth 6 shillings and 8 pence in 1461 and, mercifully, was scrapped. No one has yet suggested calling it a dollar...
...Association. Although the adoption of many of its programs has helped the city build one of the better and cleaner urban governments in a state where these qualities are not exactly widespread, the CCA has never been able to elect more than four of the nine Councilors. These seats correspond roughly to the influence of the Harvard-Brattle-St.-M.I.T. district and the influence of the rest of Cambridge. Give or take a seat, it is a healthy balance for the city...