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Word: amounts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the two years that the UAC has considered the proposal, its members observed wrestling to determine whether or not it fulfilled the necessary requirements for major status. These included amount of practice needed, number of spectators, and caliber of competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Action Raises Wrestling To Major Status | 3/13/1957 | See Source »

...athletic approach requires a fair amount of colored truth, but if done with the proper finesse, most anything is excusable. For example, "I'd rather not discuss the offer I got from Yale's football coach...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Likewise, I'm Sure | 3/12/1957 | See Source »

Harvard's emphasis on grades can show worst in the examination which ends the course and completes the process of grading it. Finals can and should be educational tools themselves, but they now tend to emphasize memory, not thought, and to allow for a liberal amount of vaguely knowledgeable generalization...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: The Grading System: Its Defects Are Many | 3/12/1957 | See Source »

...DOWN PAYMENTS on mortgages will drop if Congress approves new plan sent up by Administration. Plan is to boost the amount of cost of house that FHA can insure; e.g., to new maximum of 96% of first $10,000 of appraised value v. current 95% of first $9,000. Effect would be to lower down payment on $10,000 house to $400 from current $700, on $16,000 house to $1,300 from $2,200, on $20,000 house to $2,500 from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Mar. 11, 1957 | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...said that the amount collected this year (approximately $7000) was "ridiculously small" compared to the $35,000 goal that Yale has exceeded the past two years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Seeks to Conduct Annual Charities Drive | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

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