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Word: highnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This term's enrollment of almost 1300 is an all-time high. Most of the directors, taking into consideration the recent drop in employment and slight economic regression, had previously expected the number of "students" to drop at this time. Although most classes cost only eight dollars for ten-meeting semesters, they were afraid that the public might hold its money in higher esteem than the Ceenter's courses. They were wrong. It seems that most adults already know something about the A B C's of Investments, and consider the Center's dividend of knowledge a thoroughly enjoyable...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/14/1949 | See Source »

...McCabe, entering his second season as jayvee coach, isn't worried. In fact, he thinks he may be a bit over-optimistic because of the unusually high spirit and enthusiasm his men have shown. These two quantities, he feels, may make up for some of the deficiencies...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

...tone, "That's a great deal to make two words mean." And Alice being an unusually logical girl would think it odd that the people so alarmed about the government getting all mixed up in other people's business could at the same time be heartily in favor of high tariffs, and subsidies of farm prices, and subsidies of railroads, and subsidies of merchant shipping. Alice, having stayed too long in Wonderland, might not know that the party that had no issue in last year's election might easily create one for 1950 and 1952 by talking, talking, talking about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Lithe and Slimy" | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

...over, there were language classes on some of the boats to brush up fading high school French and German; on the trip back, one boat's students were teaching English--to 200 DP's headed for Canada. Meetings and conferences sprang up in abundance. The moment one found a quiet corner, it would turn out that some sort of meeting was about to begin there, on anything from Scandinavian socialism to the German Baroque...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: Thousands of US Students Migrate To Europe for Summer Study, Play | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

Other funds give preference to graduates of certain high schools or preparatory schools. Still others prescribe that the applicant must be a Greek major, a Geologist, or "an instructor or student in the Egyptian and Semitic Department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strange Gifts Help Students In University | 10/11/1949 | See Source »

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