Word: furthering
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Formerly, the group could "obtain through the college office necessary information pertaining to the undergraduate body, such as marks, cuts, absences from Cambridge, etc, for the purpose of having at all times exact data so that it might give warnings to individuals, teams, etc." Gone are the days too when...
Above the Echoes. Fry carries echoes of many poets-moderns like Eliot, 19th-Century Romantics like Keats. But his deepest echoes go further: to the poetic dramatists of the Elizabethan age. Some of the words he puts in Thomas Mendip's mouth sound like Hamlet in the Forest of...
Last week Nehru himself took his old alma mater off the hook. Through the Indian high commissioner in London, he informed his Cantab, backers that he wished his name withdrawn. Without further ado, Lord Tedder's election went through. Airman Tedder got the word from his office in Washington...
Many astronomers had agreed that the stars are probably condensations formed from interstellar gas. Hoyle and Lyttleton went further: they concluded, after long mathematical labor, that a star's "fate" (what happens to it during its life of many billions of years) is determined by how much interstellar gas...
Audiences, traditionally willing to meet this impossibly romantic classic half way, may have to go a bit further this time. Their surest reward will be a fine performance by Actor Ferrer, who gets uniformly good support from Mala Powers, a pretty Roxane. William Prince does well as the tongue-tied...