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Word: mathe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coeducation stared a Sever 5 class squarely in the face yesterday morning when two Cambridge moppets, approximately six years of age, wandered into a Math Ab section meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Youthful Female Teachers Revise College Standards | 4/10/1947 | See Source »

Having brought about a semblance of quiet in the classroom, she scrawled a few symbols on the blackboard, then turned and demanded of the assembled math students, "How much is one plus four...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Youthful Female Teachers Revise College Standards | 4/10/1947 | See Source »

...whiz at English and math, he graduated at the head of his class from Indiana's Culver Military Academy, went on to the University of Virginia to study law. He spent more time playing poker and shooting craps. He did not bother to finish his first year because in April, at the age of 19, he married Anita O'Keeffe,* a girl from Sun Prairie, Wis., whom he had met at a party in Charlottesville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Galahad on Wheels | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...form, he becomes a cheerful extrovert. Psychologists have found no evidence that lobotomy impairs intelligence, though foresight and initiative are often diminished. At Boston's Psychopathic Hospital, whose staffmen have done 200 lobotomies, Director Harry Caesar Solomon reports that patients, after lobotomy, have done well as college students, math teachers, businessmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Kill or Cure | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...report about the opposing players in his position. Before each game, the Bears' elaborate card index of the weaknesses in rival players is brought out and studied. Sample: the New York Giants' 225-lb. left tackle, Tex Coulter (dropped from West Point in June because his math grades were poor) is tough on defense, but he is apt to be a vulnerable link when the Giants have the ball. Halas' Bears practice three hours a day, get three lectures a week and homework...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: It Pays, But It's Work | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

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