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...months after Harvard's donation, the General Court of Massachusetts proclaimed "that the colledge agreed upon formerly to bee built at Cambridge shalbee called Harvard Colledge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Cities Celebrate John Harvard's Baptism | 11/29/1957 | See Source »

Will our superior satellite signal Bo Peep or bee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 25, 1957 | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

Puffing on the coals of martyrdom, some Southern editors indulged in such overblown headlines as the seven-column banner in the Danville (Va.) Bee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dark Valley | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

Having come within one word (afflatus) of winning last year's Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee, dark-haired Sandra Owen, 14, of Navarre, Ohio, had thought of practically nothing else but boning up for another crack at the title. Her second chance came last week when the 67 finalists assembled in the Commerce Department's auditorium for this year's bee in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: O-R-D-E-A-L in Washington | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

...first, the words that rolled so precisely off the pronouncer's tongue ("All-right-y. Yours is an old spelling-bee favorite, the study of fishes: ik-thee-olo-gee") seemed a cinch. By lunchtime. Mrs. Wilford White, the chief judge, had rung her bell only 16 times to signal the fall of contestants. But after lunch, the pronouncer began to give out words that even he admitted he could not define...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: O-R-D-E-A-L in Washington | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

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