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The world’s first university was Plato’s Academy in Athens, venerable old universities are scattered across Europe from Coimbra to Cambridge to Copenhagen, and the modern university, uniting research and education, was pioneered by Wilhelm von Humboldt in Berlin.

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It was venerable.

This is the most venerable of the happinesses, traditionally.

That so many of the city's most venerable taxpayers have survived yet another commercial building boom, is cause for celebration.

First, viewers are required to recall the sordid details of Steve McBirney's (played by venerable thug and HUAC squealer Marc Lawrence) 1929's murder spree.

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