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Word: existing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...student's field; he should have foresight enough to predict the number of applicants to graduate schools in five years; he should be familiar with all the courses in the university; and he should know and understand his advisee's personality almost immediately. This person just doesn't exist...

Author: By John G. Wofford, | Title: Freshman Advising Program May Mean Much -- Or Nothing | 5/23/1956 | See Source »

...Eastern foment. There, riding at anchor in the soft swell of Okinawa's Buckner Bay, is Vice Admiral Stuart Ingersoll's Seventh Fleet, ready to turn its carrier-keyed task force toward the first break in Asia's ominous calm (a calm that might well not exist were it not for the Seventh Fleet's presence). There, in drydock for routine overhaul at Norfolk's huge (35 admirals on duty) Navy complex, is the 60,000-ton carrier Forrestal, most powerful ship afloat, preparing to join the fleet in the fall as the Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Admiral & the Atom | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...adequate courts that do exist are inaccessible from March to June to all but the thirty members of the varsity and freshmen teams. Others--be they House players or just poor amateurs--must go to the 25 green-painted asphalt courts, deceptively attractive from a distance. But such surfaces spell death to sneakers ($6.95 a pair) and balls ($2.15 a can) within two hours, and cause high, unorthodox bounces. The fact that the lines have faded with the years is made more annoying by the balls' friendly, blending shade of green. Since both ball and line are invisible, "take...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Menace to Tennis | 5/11/1956 | See Source »

...other hand, is somewhat caustic on the subject, and observed, "a university that does not exist for teaching has lost direction." Bok has worked to interest students in the field, giving this year the new Natural Sciences 7, and starting the series of concentrators' dinners, in which undergraduates meet with Faculty members and guests about every three weeks to discuss various special subjects in astronomy...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Harvard Astronomy: Discipline in Transition | 4/28/1956 | See Source »

...Vienna. A bookworm, he graduated from high school summa cum laude at 17. It was then the fashion in polite strata of most European society to lock sex in a darkened bedroom and pretend that otherwise (except for haut-monde libertines and the licentious "lower classes") it did not exist. For whatever inner need, the adolescent Freud accepted this viewpoint, once even warned his sister Anna off Balzac and Dumas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Explorer | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

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