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Word: instead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...draftees inducted before final examinations. Mid-terms grades, dropped because they were reported within two weeks of cumulative, have been restored for all students, who are not selected by University Hall's action except that hour exams can how be given at the discretion of instructors instead of at the behest of the deans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cumulative Grades Dropped | 2/8/1946 | See Source »

Fradd announced at the same time that compulsory athletics will be resumed Monday with the usual three hours a week required for all Freshmen and Sophomores. NROTC requirements have been lowered to three days a week instead of the former four or five...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THORNDIKE TO RETURN TO HAA | 2/8/1946 | See Source »

...prison-but never lost his interest in education. He became librarian of the state penitentiary at Concord, N.H.; his 200-odd fellow inmates came to him for advice on correspondence-school courses to take and books to read. The library he built up (and was allowed to sleep in, instead of a cell) became the envy of other prisons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Life Story | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

...version of the standard "SCR-271" radar set, operating on its regular, fairly high frequency of 112 megacycles. The key play was in not sending out thousands of "pulses" of radio energy per second, which would not have allowed enough time in between for the moon echo to return; instead, Belmar sent out only one half-second pulse every five seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diana | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

...Craig Rice conceived a child instead of an idea, he would by now have progressed to first grade in school. But the idea has progressed faster. It has already turned into 15 books which have made her a highly successful mystery writer, with Hollywood contracts. And last week it turned into a contract to become editor of her own mystery magazine, the Craig Rice Crime Digest (scheduled to begin publication this spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mulled Murder, with Spice | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

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