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Word: maisons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more girl must sign the petition for a "Maison Francaise" at Radcliffe, in order to have it brought before the Administration. So far, 24 have signed, but the petition will be taken down on March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Seeks Signer | 2/27/1953 | See Source »

Radcliffe may set aside an off-campus house as a "Maison Francaise' next year if enough girls are interested, Mary C. Moser, Dean of Residence, said last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cliffedwellers May Get Own French House | 2/12/1953 | See Source »

Jordan added at that time he thought such a plan was impracticable, because of Radcliffe's great need of low-cast living space. If Saville were turned into a Maison Francaise, only two off-campus houses and three cooperatives would be available at lower board rates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cliffedwellers May Get Own French House | 2/12/1953 | See Source »

...four days, talk of modern medicine was barred from Paris' Maison de la Médecine. The squat hall, across the square from Napoleon's tomb, was taken over by the latter-day devotees of a "healing" art older than Western civilization itself: the International Society of Acupuncture. His Imperial Highness Prince Buu Loc, Vietnamese Ambassador to France, assured the 350 delegates from 16 countries that the Western world was at last recognizing the virtues of acupuncture -the ancient Chinese custom of giving the patient the needles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Quick, the Needle! | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...flower-decked hotel bedroom in Nice, Colette, aging French novelist and short story writer (Gigi, La Maison de Claudine), sipped champagne, read some Maupassant and made a 79th birthday decision: "It isn't particularly funny to learn all at once upon waking up that one is entering one's 80s. But tomorrow I will forget and give myself another age, 58 for instance, because I have remained so much a woman. At 58 one still pleases ... at 58 one has so much hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Trials & Tribulations | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

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