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Word: c (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usually point. Less proud five years olds use the international nose pressed against counter technique. Student patronage fluctuates with exams, football games, and holidays while house-wives place orders all year. Some connaisseurs request dishes that send the proprietress scurrying for advice to Monsieur Marty who usually replies, "Oui, c'est possible...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Six Steps Down | 5/19/1955 | See Source »

...economics education on the public school level, Monroe C. Gutman '05, New York investment broker, has donated $50,000 to the Graduate School of Education for a comprehensive study of the best method of elementary teaching in the basic history of the United States government and economy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bequest to Aid Economics Dept. With New Chair | 5/17/1955 | See Source »

During the two-day affair, the local drivers took three of the hill climbing events. Pete Magie (Flat) won the Class H; Jeff Barach (Volkswagen) Class G; and Rod Nerney (Ford Thunderbird) Class C...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drivers Triumph | 5/17/1955 | See Source »

...student who has always been accustomed to getting As, the almost inevitable Cs can seem a crushing failure. They are also pretty hard on the proud parents, and it is one of Dean of Freshmen Foster Strong's most ticklish tasks to reassure the older generation that a C at Caltech is the equivalent of an A or a B almost anywhere else. In spite of all the cushioning, however, some students fall by the wayside; by graduation only about two out of three have survived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Purists | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

Died. Louis C. Breguet, 75, French airplane manufacturer who in 1908, less than five years after the Wright Brothers' flight at Kitty Hawk, constructed and ascended in a crude apparatus that he called a gyroplane, a forerunner of the helicopter; of a heart attack; in Paris. A topflight builder of World War I military aircraft, Breguet was once scoffed at for predicting that airplanes would fly at 650 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 16, 1955 | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

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