Word: 120th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent years, he faced the increasingly bitter taunts of the liberal arts professors, who have long called 120th Street "the widest street in the world." But each year, some 13,000 teachers and administrators flock to that street. They take courses in everything, from "ideological conflicts and education in Asia" to "family meals" (Cookery 203) and organic chemistry. Though the college does go in for such miscellany as tap dancing ("Well," says Russell, "what would you do if you were a teacher in a small country school on a rainy day?") and a two-week course for janitors, this...
Dreams & Danger. Most of the time, President Russell-a gentle man of Pickwickian build and conservative bent-has tried to walk straight down the middle of 120th Street. Last week, as he prepared to step down in favor of his like-minded former student, T.C.'s Dean Hollis Caswell, 52, President Russell could claim with justice that, at their best, T.C.'s doctrines have injected new humanity and freedom into the schools. But at their worst (as critics point out), they could lead to a wholesale intellectual retreat into a never-never land of growth without goal...
...moment later, on the 120th anniversary of Belgium's birth as a nation, Baudouin Albert Charles Leopold Axel Marie Gustave, Duke of Brabant, Count of Hainaut and fifth King of the Belgians, sat on his throne for the first time...