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Word: fair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the Extension's most important difference from the regular college is in the much greater variety of students attracted by its low costs and high standards. "Go out and round up a hundred people in the Square some night and you'll have a fair approximation of my class," one lecturer said...

Author: By John H. Fineher, | Title: Extension Offers A.A. Degree to Young, Old At Only Four Bushes of Wheat per Course | 4/28/1955 | See Source »

John Lord O'Brian '96 will speak on "Security in an Age of Anxiety" at 8 p.m. tonight in the first of this year's Godkin lectures at Sanders Theatre. He will speak again tomorrow night to conclude the series, with his topic "Security, Sanity, and Fair Play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: John O'Brian Gives Godkin Talk Tonight | 4/27/1955 | See Source »

...dream stage. After years of arguing about location and funds, the Illinois state legislature is almost certain to pass a bill creating a state authority to issue revenue bonds to build a $34 million hall, with a 60,000-seat capacity, on the site of Chicago's 1933 fair. Construction is expected to begin in about a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Apr. 25, 1955 | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...GREAT FAIR (306 pp.)-Sholom Aleichem-Noonday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jewish Mark Twain | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...Mattel) he humorously chronicled the bittersweet life of the late 19th-century eastern ghettos-pious, self-contained, but poised on the brink of a new Diaspora to Western Europe and America. Born Solomon Rabinowitz, and raised in the little village of Voronko, Russia, the hero of The Great Fair is a "pretty boy with fat red cheeks," who can convulse his playmates by mimicking the rabbi's manner of taking snuff, or bring a glint of pride to his bearded father's eyes by citing chapter and verse in a Bible exam. Since he is more prankster than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jewish Mark Twain | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

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