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Word: beacons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Negotiations were begun by the former owners of the house, Cutler said, commenting that "It is a little outside the area the University had expected to buy in." The building is located on Kirkland St., between New Lecture Hall and Beacon St. and the University-owned Holden Green apartments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot's Former House Bought | 11/8/1958 | See Source »

...nostalgia for the London of old, plus a prophetic desire for the bigger and better. It demanded houses which were to be passing fayre, in the language of the time, houses which were to represent social status. And so, when the satanic redmen had at last been driven from Beacon Hill, and the kinddom of God more firmly established, the seeds of a Londonesque Boston began to sprout forth...

Author: By R. P. Gilman, | Title: The Plainstyle In Three Dimensions | 10/31/1958 | See Source »

Massachusetts elections have never had the notoriety of those in Long's Louisiana, or the predictability of Vermont's. Traditionally, the Republicans pit a Puritan Beacon Hiller against a Democrat recently arisen from Boston's South End. This year the situation has changed: for one of the two major state posts, the Democrats have nominated a fair-haired boy from the upper classes, and the Republicans have chosen two relatively unknown political hacks in their nearly hopeless campaign effort. All four candidates are united in one respect: they are mediocre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Choice of Evils | 10/29/1958 | See Source »

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.--Disappointed missile scientists were at a loss yesterday to explain what happened to the Army's latest space venture--an attempt to blast a Beacon balloon satellite into orbit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dulles, Chiang Agree Not to Use Force Against China Mainland; De Gaulle Calls for Cease-Fire | 10/24/1958 | See Source »

...effects certain changes in the educational system. First, it alters its whole purpose. Schools and universities are expected to turn out men motivated and trained to further the development of their country, rather than well-rounded individuals trained in the liberal arts. The ideal, as set forth in The Beacon, is not so much "knowledge for its sake" as "education inspired with a social purpose...

Author: By David Abernethy, | Title: Students in Nigeria - The New Elite | 10/16/1958 | See Source »

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