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Word: afters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Picking from faculty suggestions of shirker sophomores and juniors, Amherst Dean C. Scott Porter classified 51 students as potential underachievers. After a careful screening of the students' records, and conferences with them and their parents, five juniors and seven sophomores were told to take a year's leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Underachievers | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

A Second Bethlehem. After the elements of the Nativity scene were established, the first recorded real crèche was made in 1223 by St. Francis of Assisi. Christmas had always been for him the "Feast of Feasts" when "God condescended to be fed by human love." In the church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Rich Poverty ... | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Newbold Morris, onetime president of the New York city council and close friend of the late Fiorello H. La Guardia, walked into the star's dressing room after a performance at Manhattan's Broadhurst Theater and said: "Mr. La Guardia, we met for the first time when you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: New Little Flower | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Eight years ago, Actor Bosley was a restaurant doorman. Born in Chicago, he started out there after discharge from the Navy in 1946, worked on local radio shows, did summer stock. Moving on to New York four years later, he picked up small acting jobs off Broadway and on TV...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: New Little Flower | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

* In February 1673, the great French dramatist Jean Baptiste Poquelin, whose nom de plume was Moliere, ignored his failing health and insisted on acting in Le Malade Imaginaire, the last play he ever wrote. Unlike the hero of his comedy, Moliere, 51, was suffering from no imaginary illness. He had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEADLINERS: Love, Always Love | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

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