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Word: arens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have two final comments on the tables. They would, of course, become less meaningful if one could give redence to anther popular assumption: they should be doing well; they're the best students in the class; why aren't they doing better? . . . By the quantitative measures we have, advanced standing students can be identified not by the level of their measured intelligence, their test scores and the like, but by the schools they were lucky enough to attend. They are in fact better prepared, perhaps a little more sophisticated, and they come from our best secondary schools; they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advanced Standing Report | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

Navy, the defending champion, comes to Cambridge with a pretty impressive club. They are 6-1 for the year, and their team batting average of .291 indicates they have a fairly explosive line-up. Team fielding and pitching aren't quite as remarkable, but Navy apparently believes, as do the Yankees, that sheer brute force can go a long...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball Varsity Entertains Navy In Crucial Home Game | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...Home Journal: "The trouble is that Nature is working for a marriage at about 15 or 16 years. Early dating and going steady for months will encourage intimacy even before 15. But our society expects everyone to be in school until at least 17 or 18. Some children who aren't at all ready are forcing themselves to compete for partners and to play the roles of people in love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: The Pre-Teens | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

...last year's, but has greater depth, Barnaby noted. Captain Sullivan, slated number one, falls somewhat short of last season's Bob , and Vic Niederhoffer, number two man, is still only a sophomore. But of good younger players has seen that "some people who won letters last year aren't quite in the running this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Eyes Weak Net Foe | 4/11/1962 | See Source »

...Feeling) by Kingsley Amis, the script releases plenty of low-pressure fizz and an occasional slow leak of wit ("I was plowing through your novel the other day," the hero murmurs sweetly to an author he detests. "We have an unsigned first edition-they're the rare ones, aren't they?"). But what matters most is Comedian Sellers. He is perfectly hilarious as the lubricious bookworm, the wan don who thinks he is a Don Juan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Barmy in the Back Stacks | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

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