Word: originally
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Obsessed by the Sun. Mumford traces the origin of such urges to the 16th century astronomer Galileo, whose unwitting crime was that he left man out of his reckoning. Preoccupied with the orderly behavior of the planets in the heavens, Galileo, and the scientists who followed him, says Mumford, assumed that life on earth could be reduced to neat, predictable patterns. With his customary prophetic fervor, Mumford accuses Galileo of "driving man out of living nature into a cosmic desert even more peremptorily than Jehovah drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden...
...investigation began last April when investigators asked Harvard to open its personnel files to determine whether the University discriminated in hiring and promotion on the basis of race, religion, national origin, or sex. Such discrimination is prohibited to any institution receiving federal funds under Executive Orders issued by President Johnson...
...also referred to the internment of Japanese aliens and American citizens of Japanese origin during World War II, but, he added, "I think everyone would agree that it went to the verge of the Constitution...
...Boston Globe erroneously reported this morning that Hall was scheduled to start at fullback against Columbia. Soon thereafter, Miller-who gained 154 yards on 23 carries against Rutgers-was subtly making inquiries as to the origin of the report...
Assuming that the shot had come from the N.C.C.F. headquarters, police immediately planned a raid on the clapboard house. They alerted newsmen, then sent some 100 steel-helmeted officers to assault the building shortly after dawn. Shots of unknown origin were heard, and police opened fire with automatic rifles and shotguns. Some of the ammunition was powerful enough to rip through three rooms and emerge from the building's opposite wall. Police caught return fire, some from the building, other shots apparently from elsewhere in the project. The besieged were presumably saved from death or injury by sandbags they...