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Word: gracefully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vindication is the fact that Cliffies will not, by and large, earn their living on the basis of their educational experience. Few Radcliffe graduates enter professional life, while their husbands-seventy per cent of whom are Harvard graduates-must earn a living for at least two. Radcliffe brains may grace a home; Harvard brains must...

Author: By Pauline A. Rubbelke and Claude E. Welch jr., S | Title: Sexes Battle for Academic Superiority | 4/9/1959 | See Source »

...raddled grey-black fog festooned the sea off the New Jersey coast. Homeward bound after a twelve-day Caribbean cruise, the Grace Line's slick, new 20,000-ton luxury liner Santa Rosa steamed north, making a high-speed 20 knots in dangerous, heavily traveled waters. Her voyage was scheduled to end at her New York berth in just five hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Collision at Sea | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

Even as Santa Rosa tied up, Coast Guard and U.S. Senate investigation committees started inquiries into the cause of the collision. The main mystery: both ships were equipped with radar, each was aware of the other's presence-so what had happened? Grace Line officials charged that Valchem had suddenly turned into Santa Rosa's path. Valchem's skipper, Louis L. Murphy, 33, claimed that after his radar man spotted Santa Rosa from eight miles and "dead ahead," he changed course to pass port to port according to the Rules of the Road. Santa Rosa then apparently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Collision at Sea | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...GRACE LINE won first subsidy from the Maritime Administration to operate from the Great Lakes to the Caribbean. Grace will begin service with six ships when St. Lawrence Seaway opens this spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Mar. 30, 1959 | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...effort to find a qualified replacement. Geography is a valuable study; the factors of terrain are key determinants in social and political development of the world's peoples. A study of the appropriate geography would seem to be a necessity in the Regional Studies Program; suitable courses would also grace undergraduate programs. Whether flat, spheroid, or pear-shaped, the world could be studied with profit at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Worldly Study | 3/25/1959 | See Source »

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