Word: biannual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...build prestige, the papers spend lavishly on such extracurricular flings as importing the New York Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals, financing deep-sea bathysphere explorations. To save their employees' face, publishers give out biannual bonuses amounting to some 40% of salaries, automatically move their best reporters into administrative jobs at around 35. Not only do the overstaffed papers hardly ever fire anyone, but, as a sort of national face-saving gesture, they yearly hire unnecessary help from Japan's crop of new college graduates...
...biannual autumnal electioneering exhibition draws nearer its November denouement, both parties find accuracy less and less requisite in their campaigns. Vice-President Nixon might well be correct in saying, "The public memory is very short," but he and his party are insulting the voters' intelligence in proclaiming that the Democratic Party was responsible for the defeat of the Kennedy-Ives labor reform bill...
...Lamont should go ahead with the plan. Starting with the largest courses, the library could keep posting the exams until it runs out of space. This would mean a good deal less handling of the paper volumes, and hence a greater probability that they would survive the biannual crush of students. And if only those courses with enrollments of over a hundred could win a place on the board, fewer students would spend frantic hours searching for exams that have been either stolen or tattered beyond...
...NAACP and the Students for Democratic Action; it has a Young Progressives of America and International Relations Club. Significant as it may be, an examination of the College's official handbook reveals no mention of a Young Republican group. Students publish a weekly newspaper, the Campus; a biannual literary magazine called Dimensions; and a Yearbook...