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Word: eminentance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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In the U.S., Dr. Hu Shih, China's most eminent scholar and a former Chinese Nationalist Ambassador to the U.S., bustled between Washington and New York, demanding an open civil trial for Lei Chen. Dr. Hu is a close friend of Chiang Kaishek, but at the same time he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORMOSA: Dismounting a Tiger | 10/3/1960 | See Source »

Holland argues three points: first, the fifty universities that control half of the nation's scholarship funds are depriving less wealthy institutions of student and faculty talent and of eminent graduates, an important means of building prestige. Geographic representation, he claims, results in an "intellectual denuding of many areas" and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Academic Oklahomas | 9/30/1960 | See Source »

Holland's claim of impossible competition for talent and his assertion that admissions procedures are eliminating creative students contradict one another. If, as he claims, there is little relation between postcollegiate success and test scores, then the wealthiest colleges that, he says, rely upon these figures could hardly be denying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Academic Oklahomas | 9/30/1960 | See Source »

Texan Johnson invaded the unfamiliar territory of Boston earlier in the week, and for the first time, after all the years of soft-pedaling criticism of foreign policy in the national interest, really opened up. He struck a cowboy pose atop a police man's horse and declared that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Voices of Veeps | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

Short Circuit. One point on which the Socialists are clearly determined to do better was the emotion-charged issue of reunification of East and West Germany. Fortnight ago, Germany's most eminent living philosopher, craggy Professor Karl Jaspers, 77, who now teaches at Switzerland's Basel University, flatly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The Warmup | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

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