Word: junior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first group to be elected from each class is the "Junior Eight," who are named in the spring of their Junior year by the members of the Society in the Senior class and by various graduate members. Their number is increased to 24 in November of Senior year when the "Senior Sixteen" are elected, and membership is brought up to ten per cent of the class in the third election in June...
...puff of smoke in the green-brown Verdugo hills to the northeast. The DC-7B at first spiraled lazily, then, its dive steepening, went into a twisting spin, finally plunged with a thunderous roar onto the lawn of the Pacoima Congregational Church, just a block from the Junior High School. There on the athletic fields, 220 seventh-and eighth-grade boys were moving back into the gymnasium...
Dashing hysterically to the school, panicky mothers in pin curls and slacks retrieved their children, led them home through a 20-block area strewn with hunks of fallen metal, fragments of Fiberglas insulation, oxygen tanks. Though wreckage had pierced walls and roofs, no one outside the Junior High schoolyard was seriously hurt. From Los Angeles in the wake of the crash came angry demands for federal controls. But in the San Fernando Valley, anger was tempered by sorrow, and death had wiped magic from the air and sparkling sun. Gathering her child to her tightly, a mother said sadly: "Living...
...proved well grounded. In Manhattan's High School of Music and Art, Charlie Van Doren studied the clarinet to become a concert artist. But though he ran up a 95 average and became the school's first student to qualify for college at the end of his junior year, he abandoned music as a profession. He has since picked up piano and guitar by ear. After graduating from St. John's cum laude in 1947, he decided to become an astrophysicist, partly, he now thinks, because he wanted to get out of the shadow of his father...
Harvard has admitted its first Hungarian refugee. He is Adam Makkai, a 21-year-old former student at the University of Budapest, who has entered the College as a junior...