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Word: californiaisms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thursday, December 14 CHRYSLER PRESENTS THE BOB HOPE SHOW (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Bob Hope portrays a modern-day Saint Nick caught in a traffic jam on a California freeway and thrown into jail. With Bob are Phil Silvers, Ernest Borgnine and Wally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 15, 1967 | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

Continuing its trip through California, Discovery tours "San Francisco: Harbor of Harbors, Bay of Bays," seeing the waterfront, the Golden Gate Bridge, Nob and Telegraph hills, the Barbary Coast and reminiscing a bit about its fires, earth quakes and gold rush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 15, 1967 | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

Over 100 of the signers attend Boalt Hall or Hastings, two law schools in the University of California. Chicago, Columbia, Yale, and Stanford were also among the 20 schools represented...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thirty-One Law Students Declare 'We Won't Go' in Letter on Draft | 12/13/1967 | See Source »

While the selection process now approaches the ultimate in meritocracy, with each man considered as an individual who might or might not profit from four years at Harvard, there is nonetheless an incredible statistical consistency to the Harvard classes. The number of students admitted from California never doubles from one year to the next, and Exeter is never shut out completely. The number of Harvard sons admitted stays rather constant (although the number rejected is increasing rapidly), and the ratio of public school students to private school students changes at a slow and smooth rate, in the direction...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Admissions: Personality Is Now the Key | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

...parameters are available, a computer examines the evidence and announces an approximate quota for each docket, based on how many were admitted from this docket last year and how the numerical evaluations of this year's students in the docket compare with this year's applicants overall. Thus, if California's applicants suddenly become twice as good as last year (by the numbers) relative to the whole group, the computer will allot more places to California--but not twice as many...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Admissions: Personality Is Now the Key | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

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