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Word: experimental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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"You are the first young lady to come to this class in all the years I've been teaching it," the colonel went on. "Are you thinking of auditing this course?" "I'd like to take it, sir," she answered. The colonel laughed. "You're welcome." Before the experiment, skeptics...

Author: By Pauline A. Rubbelke, | Title: ROTC Instructor Welcomes 'Cliffie As First Girl to Enroll in Course | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

Richfield's big atomic bet is based on a chemical peculiarity: the molecular structure of Athabaska oil is such that, once thinned by heat, it flows indefinitely, whereas many heavy crudes thicken again in cooling. The spot picked by Richfield for its experiment has rich tar sand down to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: A-Bombing for Oil | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

The project's ultimate goal is to find college candidates among once-hopeless students. It is a long, uphill fight. Of 148 students in the experiment's first class at Junior High School 43, only 38 were able to pass all their courses after they went on to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hope in the Slums | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

No Illusions. At George Washington last week, the young Negro boy whose father hates books was working successfully in his studies, and the Puerto Rican lad who refused to talk is talking; he told Counselor Schulman that he wanted to be a newspaper reporter, agreed that he could never succeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hope in the Slums | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

The pressing need, as George Washington Principal Henry T. Hillson and others interested in the experiment see it, is to begin special programs for children at the very start of their education. If the school board gets the $500,000 it wants from the city, and perhaps another $500,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hope in the Slums | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

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