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Word: exchangees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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At five o'clock one afternoon last week, two stocky figures in ill-fitting topcoats and battered felt hats stepped out of a shabby green railway coach onto the red-carpeted platform of Helsinki Station. After an exchange of platitudes with Finnish Premier V. J. Sukselainen, resplendent in top...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: The Dignity Bit | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

Golfers & Speculators. On the green acres of four nearby courses, golfers yearned to mix business with pleasure. In no time, the price of memberships shot up so high that some are now more expensive than seats on the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange. The price at the Los Angeles Country Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Peanuts Under the Patio | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

Gen Ed has succeeded quite well since then. Several thousand students have now received a sub-lethal dose of a few great books and some impressive ideas. They not only exchange them at cocktail parties, but also sit up for hours in Holworthy or Matthews arguing about them. Those early...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: General Education: Its Qualified Success | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

Yet these men are challenging and often inspiring. The Departments are usually too rigidly committed to the idea that what is best for the scholar is best for Harvard and forget or are afraid to admit that scholarship is not the only worthwhile creative pursuit. As a result, artists and...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Professor's Multiple Roles Hinder Teaching | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

Occupational Hazards. As Heald has already learned, running a foundation is full of pitfalls. No one could possibly quarrel with the foundation's recent grant of $25 million to the National Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Program to draw more talent into college teaching by helping promising graduate students. On the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Philanthropoid No. 1 | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

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