Word: levelation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...class war of teenagers, the leather-jacket set long affected ducktail haircuts with lush sideburns, and early-to-bed, high school athlete types favored the crewcut or its level-roofed extreme, the flattop. Inevitably, such a division in the ranks, visible even to parents, had to go. The suave slobs in jackets-leaderless since Guitar-Whanger Elvis Presley played a command performance in an Army barbershop last March-began to let a little more of their hair be cut off. Their short-haired opposites took second looks at the fraternity boys home for Thanksgiving and Christmas vacations. Compromise result clearly...
...domination and armed his reporters to cover the Ku Klux Klan. But the Bees hum every bit as independently now as then. C.K. leaped party lines to endorse Warren Harding in 1920 and old Bob La Follette in 1924. Although Eleanor has been more consistently Democratic at the national level, she makes endorsements on the state ticket with an impartial disregard for party. Last fall she supported Democrat Pat Brown for Governor, but the rest of the Bees' state ballot went to Republicans. Bee readers expect thorough news coverage as a matter of course. The Sacramento Bee, biggest...
Back on the third level stacks, with his books and clock and everything right there around him, he took out the card, letting the trim run once lightly between his fingers. In a flash it was licked securely in its protective envelope and Lucius was moving boldly into Miss Schroeder's neighbouring alcove, where he placed it devotedly among her papers...
...Allen Hynek, visiting lecturer on General Education and head of Nat Sci 9, supported the report while responding to Jones' criticism of too many lower level teachers. Hynek fully agreed that the emphasis upon secondary preparation ought to be increased. However, he maintained that "not even as great a university as Harvard should forget that one of the prime obligations of a university is to teach...
...Rent Adjustment Fund will not be basically altered. Students occupying suites below the price level indicated on their room applications will "contribute" to the Fund; this money will go into a revolving fund...