Word: junior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their students were missing out on a college education either because they could not afford to go to a campus away from home or because they could not get the training they wanted. In 1941 Sammartino and a group of the principals began discussing plans for a two-year junior college, got Rutherford's wealthy (surgical instruments) Colonel Fairleigh S. Dickinson excited over the idea. Dickinson arranged the purchase of the abandoned mansion and turned it over to Sammartino. In 1942 the new college opened its doors...
...some 400 homeward-bound U.S.S.R. tourists aboard, the Soviet embassy in Rome sprang a surprise: two of the sightseers, bustling incognita about the city's antiquities, had been a daughter of Nildta Khrushchev, Rada, and a daughter-in-law of Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin, Ina-a kind of junior ladies' division of the famous B. & K. traveling troupe. Neither lady's husband made the trip; Rada had prosaically explained: "My husband is just another Russian who works in Moscow. He could not get a vacation...
Without Apology. Last spring, as a junior drill instructor, Matt McKeon led Recruit Platoon 71 on a night disciplinary march into the tidal waters of Ribbon Creek, where six boots were drowned (TIME, April 23). McKeon was charged with drinking in the barracks beforehand, with "oppression" of the platoon, and with culpable negligence in the six deaths. Maximum penalty for conviction on all counts: six years in prison and a dishonorable discharge...
Alex Falconer is a bearded, swashbuckling lieutenant who bullies his crew and junior officers, gulps down immense quantities of whisky, cheats at cards, and wenches indiscriminately. The slow trip down Britain's east coast becomes, in part, Lieutenant Falconer's uneasy odyssey in search of his own soul-a search begun when he learns that a chance bed companion is to bear him a child, and completed when he walks along the littered beach at Normandy. "All along the shore, bodies-beautiful, naked, torn and shattered bodies, a head here, an arm, a leg there-protruded like marbles...
...classroom activities were broadcast from the Weeks Junior High School, where children voluntarily attend summer school. The televised classes make it possible for education students to observe demonstration classes without crowding into the classrooms themselves. Dr. Robert H. Anderson, chairman of the School of Education's Advisory Committee on Educational TV, explained that although the telecasts will be useful, they probably will not remove altogether the need for actual classroom visits...