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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would require that after the fall of 1951 three of the required six courses must come from the elementary GE list--which even now provides 11 choices in social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences. The remaining credits would be elected from either the upper-group GE list or a bumper crop of departmental courses. In every step of the actual framing, the Committee has been careful to allow leeway-- even to the inclusion of two "elastic clauses" to handle exceptional cases, individual or composite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Modest Proposal | 2/8/1949 | See Source »

...peak, said the National Association of Retail Meat Dealers, was estimated between 15 and 20%. Packers were keeping their fingers crossed on whether the drop would continue, but they thought that meat would be in "pretty good supply for the rest of the winter," thanks to the bumper corn crop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ebbing Tide | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...four of its cars, Chrysler had increased headroom, seat width and wheel-bases, while lowering the roofs, cutting overall width and bumper-to-bumper length. Compared with most postwar cars, body lines were conservative. There were two brand-new models: Plymouth's Suburban, a metal station wagon that sleeps two, and a Dodge roadster with manual top and old-fashioned detachable plastic side curtains. With no frills or extras, it would be the cheapest Dodge. Chrysler had simplified its automatic fluid drive transmission, dubbed it Gyromatic, and made it regular equipment on DeSoto and Chrysler, optional on Dodge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Forty-Niners | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...American farmer. Having fed the world by pulling another bumper crop out of the magical hat, he has now proceeded to elect himself a President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 27, 1948 | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...Wisconsin's centennial year there are 18,623 students enrolled at Madison, from Edna Aaness to Norris Zvniecki, from 47 states and 57 countries. About one-fourth of them are girls.* The centennial's bumper crop had outgrown dormitories, boarding houses, and the fraternities and sororities on Langdon Street, spilling over into Army barracks, an ordnance works and three trailer camps. It now costs about $1,000 a year to go to college in Madison, for board, room and tuition, with not much left over for beer, dates and phonograph records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The First Hundred Years | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

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