Word: mason
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Quick Buck. Why do students bother? "Romanticism, a certain Perry Mason complex," answers Gorfinkle, who also points to the social turmoil of the past decade, when many became convinced that law was a key to changing the system. The Educational Testing Service reports that nationwide, 133,000 students took the law boards in 1975, four times as many as six years ago. A big factor in the jump is the large number of women who want to become lawyers. At Berkeley last year, 102 out of 292 law students were women...
...cities above the Mason-Dixon line struggle with decay and impoverishment; Houston, Dallas and Atlanta are large-scale success stories. The tide of migration is reversing; the South is now receiving white-collar workers, middle management and an intellectual elite from the North...
...term has infiltrated the language, carrying nuances not found in Fowler's Modern English Usage, shadings understood instinctively by Southerners but often baffling to armchair linguists beyond the Mason-Dixon line. TIME Washington Correspondent Bonnie Angela, a native of Winston-Salem, N.C., wrote this report on what is-and is not-a good...
...variety. Huge textile mills and wood-products plants have long played a key role in the development of the region, and they still do. But recently a host of newcomers, including many well-known corporate giants and some leading foreign firms, have set up shop below the Mason-Dixon line. General Tire built a major tiremaking facility in Charlotte. N.C. Allis-Chalmers moved an electronic-components factory into the New Orleans area. The world's biggest zipper maker, Japanese-owned Y.K.K., has given the Macon, Ga., economy a lift by building its first U.S-based integrated assembly plant there...
Nineteen stickwomen returned for the first day of practice, including nine letterpeople from last year: captain Anne Dupuis, Abby Homans, Mary Howard, Maureen Mason, Marjorie Williams, Lucy Wood, Gwill York, Anna Jones and Karen Linsley...