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Word: lesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proliferation of lowenrollment courses, and thereby holding its faculty to an active minimum, New College will be able to pay the full cost of instruction with a tuition of around $1000. There will be no need for faculty endowments. At many colleges, an even higher tutition charge today covers less than the actual costs...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Attack on Academic Rigidity Calls for 'Major Departure' | 2/20/1959 | See Source »

...Several methods of bouncing the less desirable men have been tried, but none were successful," a second girl from Briggs noted. Holmes Hall will attempt to solve the "unwanted-guest problem" with private invitations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffies View Men | 2/19/1959 | See Source »

...were interested in the mental stability of its potential servitors, it could either declare for a policy of Universal Military Training or for the establishment of a professionally attractive standing army. Neither thought seems to have much appeal for the Pentagon, possibly because the Joint Chiefs of Staff are less interested in the mental condition of American youth than they are in obtaining a "reasonable" level of military spending...

Author: By Alfred FRIENDLY Jr., | Title: Corrected Draft | 2/19/1959 | See Source »

Telescopes mounted in satellites may be launched from this country in less than three years, according to Donald H. Menzel, director of the Harvard College Observatory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scientists May Put Telescope in Space | 2/19/1959 | See Source »

...California. As it was, she wrote, "Life without a father began a very pleasant one." After settling the estate, Bertha, Leo, and Gertrude moved permanently to Baltimore, where they lived with relatives, the Bachrachs. Life in Baltimore agreed with Gertrude. Later she wrote that she became "more humanized and less adolescent and less lonesome in the restful surroundings...

Author: By Alice P. Albright, | Title: Gertrude Stein at Radcliffe: Most Brilliant Women Student | 2/18/1959 | See Source »

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