Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...means in this context "below B" since the purpose of the examination is to determine a man's qualifications for honors work in the senior year. As one of the four examiners, newly appointed, who wrote and graded the examination I can assure you that setting up what you call a "loaded" examination for thinning out the field never entered our minds. We met through the spring to write what we hoped would be a mature kind of examination, one which eliminated course-type questions and gave more play to a student's intellectual independence and imagination--the qualities...
...Cambridge the number to call is extension...
...later learned that a telephone call, reporting a bomb in the school, had caused the evacuation of the students. Army searchers found no evidence of attempted sabotage and classes were resumed shortly after noon...
...revenue for every $1 the U.S. gets in return. The latest: a route across the U.S. for Australia's Qantas Airlines which will produce at least $4,000,000 annually in return for concessions (including a route over the South Pole for the U.S.) that U.S. airmen flatly call "worthless...
...parents had apprenticed him to a jeweler. He was not an s.o.b.-at least in his biographer's view-but he could cajole the widow and children of a Mexican landowner out of 15,500 acres of grasslands for $300, resell a half interest for $2,000 and call the transaction honest business...