Word: aprile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon even some of the biggest wheels in Detroit began to doubt that U.S. consumers wanted their cars so big and bright. In the forefront of public doubters was American Motors' President George Romney (TIME, April 6, 1959). Privately, there was also Ed Cole, who had been working on a compact car for years...
Still another check on the SPT was published in April, 1955, by the Jersey Department of Institutions and Agencies in which the table was applied to 51 delinquent boys who were on parole. The group reports that "the closeness of our findings with the original findings in the study of Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency is rather noteworthy, since the New Jersey boys were selected at random, and no attempt was made to match the individual characteristic of these delinquent boys with those included in the Harvard Law School study...
Benjamin's second mile was three seconds faster than his first. Again, this race demonstrated his remarkable development in a short period of time. Until the Army meet on April 18, he had never run a mile as fast as his 4:26 second leg at Santry. And his time for the race was nearly 13 seconds faster than his best previous effort. It will be a long time before a runner with Benjamin's dogged determination and competitive pride wears a Crimson uniform...
Howe has already expresesd strong disapproval of the oaths. In a speech to the Law School Democratic Club last April, he is reported to have said that the disclaimer of subversive beliefs and activities contained in the NDEA is clearly unconstitutional...
...second story of any length is a piece by Elizabeth Sussman, a sophomore at Vassar, who took a writing course in Cambridge this summer. The Flavour of Mortality is concerned with two children adopted by a couple which lives from April to April in futile hope of the husband's promotion. The characters of the children are drawn with some subtlety; the boy's awkwardness and introspection are developed effectively, as are the main problems of the story--the uselessness of the parents' lives, and the quietly savage intensity of the boy's attempt to escape the "mortality...