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Word: extention (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students got. He believed that students should "major in the subjects easiest for you, and minor in the hardest," that they should be graded for originality and self-reliance as well as for book knowledge. They were individuals, he thought, with differing aims; they should to a large extent decide for themselves how fast they ought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prexy with a Prescription | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...spending his days with the Yale regatta a scant three weeks away. It is a temporary phenomenon. By tomorrow the Newell boathouse will be entirely abandoned, and all hands will be back at their oars operating out of Red Top, plying up and down the Thames to the extent of 20 miles...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Crews Adjourn to Red Top To Prepare for Yale Race | 6/9/1949 | See Source »

What will happen to demonstrators is not known. The college has said, "Constitutions of those groups supporting the stoppage is to be reviewed to determine the extent of illegal conduct. No individual discipline is anticipated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Colleges Bar 'Subversive,' Convicted Speakers | 5/26/1949 | See Source »

Hope of gaining the anything near 60 points rests to a great extent on the Crimson weight men and javelin throwers. John Thorndyke, Howie Reed, and Larry Ward would have to sweep the hammer; Jeff Tootell and Don Trimble in the shot, and Tootell in the discus would have to wrest at least six points from Yale aces Jim Fuchs and Vic Frank; and Charlie Kelth and John Holbrook would have to win six or eight points in the javelin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Track Team Hopes For 60 Points Against Yale | 5/20/1949 | See Source »

...obscure to the non-Social Relations major. The picture does not give a blueprint for the treatment of all juvenile delinquents, and it is certainly not a publicity handout for the Wiltwyck School. It attempts to show the effects of insecurity on a young boy's mind, and the extent to which care and affection can overcome those effects. As the narrator points out, "there is no happy ending" to Donald's story, but the film itself is a happy end to a very successful venture...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/18/1949 | See Source »

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