Word: marked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wynn's freshman crop once again looks promising, and, he says, it "could be as good" as last year's unbeaten team. Joram Piatigorsky, a high-ranked California junior, is established pretty well at number one singles, with Kal Pollen, Chris Clark, Larry Sobel and Mark Woodbury battling for the next four positions. Other contenders for singles spots are Jonathan Roosevelt, Jim Gordon, Roger Pauley and Jerry Black. The doubles teams, still undetermined, will no doubt be drawn from these nine...
...Mark-consciousness, however, is the price of conscientiousness. Girls have "an almost neurotic feeling about grades, "Morris says. Generally they worry about degrees of Honors, reading, and other matters which the oft-more blase Harvard student regards as supercillious. "Selective" reading, some men argue, may demonstrate a greater degree of maturity than simply plowing through an entire reading list...
Another reason why some Radcliffe girls may devote more time to their courses stems from future professional plans. Cliffies who go into graduate work continue in Arts and Sciences, rather than entering professional schools as boys tend to do. This helps explain the male-female mark disparity in Social Relations, for example, since the girls are interested in the field as a whole rather than as a stepping-stone before future professional training...
Diefenbaker's year as undisputed boss has left a large mark on Canadian affairs. His "vision of the north" moved toward reality as plans were drafted for new roads, railroads, and air routes stretching into the mineral-rich northland. He improved Canada's social welfare system, put into effect a long-planned national hospitalization scheme. He tightened Canada's Commonwealth ties by a two-month good-will tour of Commonwealth capitals...
...lies beneath the Altar of the Confession (reserved to the Pope himself). Over the past 20 years, careful digging has uncovered a number of Christian tombs beneath the altar, with the strong probability that one of them was Peter's; but there was no name or sign to mark it-only a maze of graffiti, scratchings of names, initials and symbols on the ancient stones...