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Word: correctional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increasing importance of the Cold War, as well as the interest developing in universities throughout the country, is beginning to prove Leach was correct in anticipating the magnitude and importance of his pilot project...

Author: By Jerome A. Chadwick, | Title: Academic Links for the Defense Department | 3/9/1956 | See Source »

...high school graduate, they could induce more students to put themselves through college than their hundred scholarships will ever lure. The pollsters have, however, confused the effort to sell higher education to the public, by reporting that half of those who miss college blame poverty. Their claim is correct, but they have obscured the fact, clearly seen in case studies, that nine out of ten insolvents can go to college if they really want...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Brain-Power Shortage | 3/2/1956 | See Source »

...their operation and shut them down promptly at the first sign of trouble. But if a vacuum tube or relay in the monitor fails, the main machine is like a building whose night watchman has dropped dead. Trouble can start and get out of hand with no one to correct it or give the alarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Watching the Watchman | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

...state wants to preserve its documents much longer, it must soon give them better quarters. It is also clear that the legislature will not be eager to appropriate the money--just under $1,000,000--necessary for new quarters. Since the supporters of the new bill are probably correct in stating that "no place in America has more precious documents and is doing as little to preserve them as Massachusetts," the legislature should appropriate the necessary money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Archaic Archives | 2/25/1956 | See Source »

Although your editorial entitled Leda and the Schwald has been explained to us as a humorous appraisal of two legislative approaches to Harvard dramatics, I'd like to correct some impressions it may have made on those who did not get the joke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SERIOUS THESPIAN | 2/23/1956 | See Source »

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