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Word: allowables (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that intransigence on both sides has got out of hand. While Greeks protested that there was no promise of future "self-determination," the Greek government was ready to go along with any compromise acceptable to Greek Orthodox Archbishop Makarios, leader of the enosis movement (the British were expected to allow the exiled Makarios to return to Cyprus). Although the Turks started riots on the grounds that the plan failed to provide for "partition," realistic Turks are aware that the partition scheme is geographically infeasible. The Turks mainly want to keep the island from going to Greece; privately, they would forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Along the Mason-Dixon Line | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

...seven biggest producers to hold some coffee off the market in an effort to prop prices. Just the same, Colombia's exporters are grumbling that holding back only encourages rival African producers to enlarge their share, now about 20%, of the world market. Pegged prices, they insist, allow African producers to undersell them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Coffee Switch | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...made to enable students to take advantage of the advanced standing programs at Harvard and other colleges. Classes are held in small discussion groups, with constant insistence on self-expression. There are few formal examinations, but frequent critical essays are required in all course. Projects and several long papers allow college-level work in the last year...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: Putney: Search for the Complete Education | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

...does, he won't be prepared for college work. It will take a composition course like Gen Ed Ahf to teach him how to express himself, and three full-year educational gargantuas--in the humanities and the social and natural sciences--to broaden his horizons enough to allow a certain selectivity in later narrowing them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Gifted Child: Tragedy of U.S. Education | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

Fifty-eight per cent would allow "the third degree" by the police and the F.B.I...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Gifted Child: Tragedy of U.S. Education | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

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