Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recall, the TIME account (April 5) was one of those stories of people caught in the backlash...
...German civil jurisdiction. Since British, French and American occupation soldiers have fathered an estimated 150,000 illegitimate German children, this means that many a G.I. (some 70,000 of the children are guessed to be American) now basking in occupation immunity may soon be called to court to account for his sin and support his child...
...Audio Account. Despite the fact that his recordings sounded far more realistic than most commercial releases, Engineer Cook was still dissatisfied. No matter how many microphones he used to pick up sounds-or speakers to reproduce it-everything was reduced to a single groove on the record. It all sounded to him "like listening through a porthole." His solution: adapting binaural or stereophonic sound (picked up by two microphones, fed through two channels and reproduced separately by two speakers) to records. Big companies, including Victor, see the straws in the wind, are quietly making binaural tapes of all their major...
...professional Africa hand, but a good observing traveler, is Esther Warner. Her SEVEN DAYS To LOMALAND (269 pp.; Houghton Mifflin; $3.50) is the story of a seven-day hike she made across Liberia to witness the native trial-by-ordeal of a houseboy accused of thievery. Her account is charming and clear-eyed...
Perhaps the biggest students problem in the Graduate School is the high rate of withdrawals. Only half of those who receive the M.A. degree eventually receive their doctorate. Scholastic account for comparatively few losses; rather, the problem rests with the individual student's purpose and his financial foresight...