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Word: attenders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carrying the Male. But there remains one enormous roadblock on the path of female emancipation: the Japanese man. Few husbands will take their wives out for an evening. Their usual excuse is that their employers, for business reasons, insist that they attend numerous geisha parties, where much of the nation's business is still transacted. In the geisha houses, the jokes and sake drinking have not changed in a thousand years. Tipsy politicians and businessmen play such children's games as "scissors, paper, rock" or the passing of lighted tapers until they go out, to determine who must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Girl from Outside | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

Last week Rosetta, now a bright-faced, brown-haired 17-year-old, was still getting used to learning from a teacher in a classroom. She is enrolled in Christchurch Training College, hopes to attend Canterbury University College next year. Note taking is hard for her; lectures in person are faster than by radio. The novelty of having other students to talk with is pleasant, although Rosetta is not sure she likes the clamor of bustling (pop. 210,000) Christchurch. Her goal: to prepare correspondence courses, teach arts and crafts for the same radio school that gave her an education during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Learning by Radio | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

Five Faculty members will attend the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Palo Alto, Calif., next year. "Guests at this center are given freedom to do whatever they want, and I intend to have a great time," Albert J. Guerard, professor of English, one of the participants, commented last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Educators to Attend Study Center | 3/20/1959 | See Source »

William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History; Morton G. White, professor of Philosophy; Frank B. Freidel, Jr., professor of History; and George Mandler, lecturer in Clinical Psychology, will attend with Guerard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Educators to Attend Study Center | 3/20/1959 | See Source »

Professor Guber was in the United States last October to attend a meeting of the Bureau of the International Committee of Historians, and was invited by William L. Langer '15, director of the Russian Research Center, to give a talk on the study of history in the Soviet Union. He spent two days in Cambridge at the time and was shown around the University by members of the Center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Russian Historian Praises Center for Soviet Studies | 3/17/1959 | See Source »

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