Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school, but there was no one to staff it. Though 100 engineering courses are listed, there is only one man in the "college of engineering," and the faculty of the journalism school is one journeyman printer. A student from Greece who went to Belin after reading its glowing account of its premedical program found that it does not even offer physics or chemistry. To make matters worse, the U.S. Immigration Service last month told Belin's 17 foreign students that they could stay in the U.S. only if attending accredited institutions. None of them knew until they arrived that...
Jews, Christians and Moslems recognize Abraham as a common spiritual ancestor, and all three faiths look to the Genesis account of how the Lord told him: "Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: and I will make of thee a great nation.'' What were Abraham's country and kindred like, and what sort of land did God show him? Modern scholarship, drawing on the latest findings of archaeology and textual research, is able to propose answers to those questions...
...alliance cannot be concerned only with the North Atlantic area or only with military defense. It must also organize its political and economic strength on the principle of interdependence, and must take account of developments outside its own area...
...retiring Boss Sidney A. Swensrud. And when General Dynamics Chairman John J. Hopkins died, the man who moved in to tie the corporation's many divisions together was Frank Pace, 45, onetime U.S. Budget Director and Secretary of the Army. Even Madison Avenue admen, whose accounts were swimming back and forth like salmon, changed their lures. At year's end Ben C. Duffy, president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn and probably the best-liked man along Madison Avenue, decided to retire after a long illness. His heir: Charles H. Brower. 56, a top idea man, who lost...
...just moving into her teens is often a hidden mystery to all but her peers. What makes "Helena Morley" a very special girl is the fact that she told not only all, or nearly all. to her diary, but published the diary in full. Following the day-by-day account, the reader will make a friend and also cross a threshold toward a special kind of understanding...