Word: eminente
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The deal that led to the payment began more than a year ago, when the city council voted to take the vacant lot by eminent domain. Based on an old appraisal, they paid Harvard $480,000 for the land.
Donald Fleming, Trumbull Professor of American History, yesterday called the appointment "an excellent thing. As one of a handful of the most eminent historians Bailyn, was the obvious choice."
An ever popular myth is that there once was, and might be again, a nice, neat division of powers and functions among federal, state and local governments. This wistful notion- known in political science circles as the "layer-cake absolute"- has never existed in reality but can be tracked back...
Finally, Robie gained the edge at 14-12 in the fifth game. Fish fought back to 14-13 and the gallery emitted a collective sigh--he had already squandered a match point. But then Robie clinched the game, the match, the national crown championship, exacting a sweet measure of revenge...
Waugh was miles off the mark. Even at 80, Herbert Mayes is still lithe, but he has never been emaciated, anatomically or creatively. And though he once edited Hearst's monthly American Druggist, he was, when Waugh wrote for him in the 1940s, one of the nation's...