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Word: disputationes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professors Elliott and Leach have presented a most interesting approach to the honorary degree problem and one that may well be applied to other vexatious question. When, for example, Radcliffe put an end to the CRIMSON's Miss Radcliffe contest, the editors might have instituted an annual competition among noted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 12/18/1959 | See Source »

Founded in 1409 by Germans who felt themselves discriminated against at Prague's Charles University, Leipzig became Germany's fourth oldest university (after Heidelberg, Cologne and the now-defunct Erfurt). It survived the struggle between Catholicism and the Reformation (Martin Luther had a memorable disputation there with Johann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Kill a University | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

The Dalai Lama's peasant family came with him to Lhasa, and his father was made a noble, but he saw little of them. His days were spent with monkish tutors, in learning the Tantric texts of Lamaism and the complex religious ceremonials. At night he went to sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIBET: The Three Precious Jewels | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

Germany last week was a stage for an unexpected act in a great drama-the struggle between the pain and glory of freedom under God and the numb death of tyranny under man. It was Kirchentag-a five-day rally of Germany's Evangelical Church-and church officials had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Drama in Frankfurt | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

Prodigal gets off winging as fun-loving Micah (Edmund Purdom) and sober-minded brother Joram (John Dehner) come galloping hell-for-leather down the main street of Joppa; with true Hollywood ingenuity, they are using stirrups a good 600 years before they were invented. Despite his Old Testament beard and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 23, 1955 | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

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