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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average age: 17) were the pick of 3,161 junior scientists, finalists in the annual Westinghouse Science Talent Search. They were chosen after stiff science aptitude tests, and on the basis of recommendations from teachers, their scholastic records, and a 1,000-word essay on their private research (sample subject: Chemiluminescence of 3-aminophthalhydrazide). For two lucky ones, there were $2,400 college scholarships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Top Juniors | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...enrolled at Columbia to get an M.A. As a college boy at Williams, he had been able to get along by scribbling down a few notes in class. Now, he takes down everything his lecturers say, spends hours each night going over his notes. Says he: "At my age it is much harder to retain the stuff than it was at 19." A member of Cincinnati's reform Charter Party, he wants to teach college courses in government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Leaf | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

Although Harvard and Yale basketball disappeared into the EIL quicksand weeks age, both teams have more than a traditional interest in tonight's season finale at New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: . . . As Nine Teams Test Yale | 3/13/1948 | See Source »

...short ballot, for he must choose 16 men to guide the destiny of Calais during 1948--moderator, clerk, selectmen, school directors, auditors, listers, trustees of public funds, cemetery commissioners, overseers of the poor, road commissioner, constable, law agent, grand, juror, health officer, truant officer, and the local old age officer...

Author: By Charles R. Conklin, | Title: Grass Roots Democracy, 1948 Version | 3/11/1948 | See Source »

...majority of the letters have been earmarked for allocation to various affiliate colleges and have been classified according to sex and age groups. Students, wishing to get the addresses of German students may obtain them at the Student Council's PBH office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 5000 German Letters Sent to College NSA | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

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