Word: cedars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...table was applied to a group of 100 Jewish boys confined in the Hawthorne-Cedar Knolls School in New York State, with the purpose of determining the extent to which it would have been possible, years earlier, to have identified them accurately as potentially serious delinquents. Black and Mis Glick ascertained that 91 per cent of the group would have been correctly spotted by the test...
Dormitory jolly-ups have also met their end. Officially outlawed at the Cedar Hill conference prior to Freshman registration, jolly-ups will be replaced by informal invitation dances...
...convention's end, effort to achieve peace through law had been given still another strong push: newly elected A.B.A. President John D. Randall, a Cedar Rapids, Iowa attorney, threw his full weight behind an A.B.A. committee, headed by former President Charles Rhyne, which is already studying the possibilities of peace through law. Said Randall: "We're going to make it the most terrific committee in the history of the A.B.A...
...seven handsome villages near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, some 1,400 members of one of the nation's strangest sects sat down last week to sausages, hams, homemade cheeses, beer and wine. The Amana Society was celebrating the 100th anniversary of its charter in Iowa, and the neat homes, the television sets, the modern appliances and the new cars all testified to prosperity-a prosperity that Amana has enjoyed since it rejected communism and turned with all its zeal to capitalism nearly 30 years...
...Iowa road a posse stopped Iowa's corn-fed Poet Paul Engle, warned him that two jailbirds, self-sprung from a nearby prison farm, might be lurking around Engle's summer home, a rambling old stone house near Cedar Rapids. Quipped Engle's car companion, daughter Mary, 18: "Oh, we'll probably find them at our house!" They did. The fugitives, a forger and an auto thief, had already held Engle's wife for nearly five hours, also had daughter Sara, 14, at kitchen-knifepoint. In the three hours that followed, the resourceful Engle family...