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Word: manuals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Len got involved in at Purdue was a pure T formation, an "academic scholarship" (which pays his tuition as long as his grades stay respectable) and a $70-a-month paycheck, for which he turns in some manual labor on the college grounds every now and then-mostly then. Along with most other married couples on the campus, Len and Jackie live in the ramshackle remnants of a wartime housing project that has already served a generation of veterans. The hard lines of dreary shacks, linked to each other by lengths of clothesline, are softened by trim lawns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Arm | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...City vocational high school, has done something about it. He has written a nightmarish but authentic first novel about the problem that should scare the curls off mothers' heads and drive the most carpet-slippered father to vigilant attendance at the P.T.A. On his first day at North Manual Trades, earnest young English Instructor Richard Dadier stops a 17-year-old from raping a new instructor on the stairs. Within two weeks seven boys waylay Dadier in an alley and beat, kick and gouge him into insensibility. The horny-handed principal and the cynical older instructors are no help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Oct. 11, 1954 | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

Computation Manual...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: CEEB Starts Scholarship Service; King to Help Administer Program | 10/1/1954 | See Source »

Although Monro and his operations committee are still working on a formula for the computation of need which will be suitable on a nation-wide basis, the Service will also offer temporary help in this capacity. It will send each school a manual for computation based on the Harvard system, which participants...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: CEEB Starts Scholarship Service; King to Help Administer Program | 10/1/1954 | See Source »

Driver's Manual. In Lake Orion, Mich., after thieves had already taken three hubcaps from Mrs. John MacLeod's car, she found a note on the front seat: "Don't drive too fast because we swiped your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 16, 1954 | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

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