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Word: closers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oregon, Rockefeller responded in kind to the warm welcome of young (37) Governor Mark O. Hatfield, who, he said, would make a "wonderful" Vice President. And his feinting attacks moved closer to Dick Nixon. Following a speech at the University of Oregon, in Eugene, a student asked Rockefeller if he thought Nixon could get enough Democratic and independent support to win the presidency. Rocky, for the first time, expressed some oblique doubts. "I wouldn't know the answer to that," he solemnly told his 8,500 listeners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Challenger | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...Commission will undoubtedly propose projects for bringing high school English teachers in closer contact with their subject matter, he said. The effectiveness of seminars, special summer sessions, and weekend conferences will be studied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CEEB Committee Ends Conference | 11/19/1959 | See Source »

...Texas (8-0)-came from behind in the fourth period, moved a step closer to the Cotton Bowl, beat Baylor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Top Ten | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...President, McKinley almost always expressed himself in sonorous platitudes, but never did he come closer to stating a political creed than in a speech made when he was running for Governor in 1891: "We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money" (what he meant was the sacredness of the gold standard). Sitting out the first presidential campaign (on his front porch in Canton, Ohio) against Bryan in 1896, he must have been shocked by the Nebraskan's notion that mankind was being "crucified on a cross of gold." The voters agreed with McKinley, and Author Leech emphasizes what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A President Remembered | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

There too, however, Sarah Lawrence is moving closer to the tried and true. Over concentration in the arts, a common occurrence in the past, is no longer permitted. No girl may take two courses in the arts simultaneously until her senior year (another recently applied curricular restriction). Even in this area, Sarah Lawrence's radicalism has become more moderate...

Author: By John C. Grosz, | Title: Sarah Lawrence: Experiment in Individualism | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

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