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Word: filles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turn it into a tourist resort, or perhaps a sort of deep-freeze Las Vegas. There was a move on to acquire it for a penitentiary; the state's jails are now badly overcrowded. But the plan was defeated when people realized that existing prisons would just fill up again with lawbreakers who are now free because of the cell shortage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alaska: The Elegant White Elephant | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

...impersonal; below it, a House may face unmanageable administrative costs. The Tenth House Committee should aim for a maximum as close to this "ideal" as financial pressures permit. If the Tenth House is designed solely to minimize crowding in the old Houses, the present student overflow would completely fill it, leaving no room for expansion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sockets and Philosophy | 2/19/1964 | See Source »

...nightcap or pill, only to be reactivated by dreams after the first couple of hours, when sleep is deepest. It is in the study and explanation of dreaming that sleep scientists have recently made their most dramatic progress. The stuff that has been written about dreams would fill a library, and most of it makes as much sense as "such stuff as dreams are made on." Dr. Kleitman's Chicago team determined to collect accurate data. Such brilliant students as Dr. William Dement (now at Stanford University) and Dr. Edward Wolpert (now at Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Physiology: Mens Sana In Corpore Sano | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

...decides to press hard for the changes. Lyndon Johnson shares Patman's Populist dislike of tight credit, and is not as close to Bill Martin as John Kennedy was. The tip-off as to where he stands in the fight may come when he selects a man to fill a current vacancy on the Federal Reserve Board. The President's decision is long overdue, and so far he has not told even Bill Martin what kind of a man he will pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banking: Fight over the Federal Reserve | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

There's a greater chance today that the non-valedictorian will be accepted, Mrs. Stimpson said. Admissions criteria have changed and although "we could fill the whole class with valedictorians," personal qualities and extra-curricular activities bear greater weight than they did 10 years...

Author: By Ann Peck, | Title: More Average Students Seek 'Cliffe Admission | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

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