Word: lick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mount Hamilton. The noted Lick Observatory, and a campus only by courtesy, has six faculty members, a handful of graduate students...
...great trouble was getting the oil out. Truck and rail costs were so high that Four Corners oil was priced out of the market. To lick the problem, a combine of six companies (Standard of California, Gulf, Continental, Shell, Richfield and Superior) formed the Four Corners Pipe Line Co., spent $50 million for a 16-in. line pumping 70,000 bbls. daily to Los Angeles. Now a second outfit, the Texas-New Mexico Pipe Line Co., has built another line, with 50,000 bbls. daily capacity, from Aneth field in Utah to Jal, New Mexico, where the oil goes into...
...Bill Knowland is a politically ambitious man. He wants to be President. In order to beat out Dick Nixon for the nomination in 1960, he decided to come back here and run for governor. If he could beat out a popular governor [i.e., Knight] in the primary and then lick the most popular nominee the Democrats could put up [i.e., California's Attorney General Edmund G. Brown], he figured he would be almost invincible as a candidate for the presidential nomination...
...course called "Refresher Math" at James Lick High School in San Jose, Calif, (pop. 150,000) is a dumping ground for the supposedly unteachable-and the untaught. The math ability of its students runs to about fifth-grade level; their IQs are the school's lowest. This year a phenomenon startling enough to be called a "miracle" by James Lick Principal William Baker is taking place: Refresher Math students are beginning to learn math. Catalyst of the change is a wiry, tireless 36-year-old Turk named Tanju Ergil, who does not own a teaching certificate...
...literature especially, those who miss the middle group course go right into the "200" section. Moreover, the advanced courses take over where the introductory surveys leave off, offering the student a chance to investigate more thoroughly an author or work to whom English 7 or 10 gave only a lick and a promise...