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Word: mattering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sign hanging in front of the Grolier Book Shop is faded--dingy, by some people's standards--and you have to climb five steps to enter the store. For that matter, there aren't any bargain sales, used book tradeins, or neat stacks marked with course titles; most students hunting for textbooks leave the store on Plympton Street in a matter of seconds...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: A Roomful of Books | 9/26/1957 | See Source »

...meals. That was somewhat puzzling because we had the impression that Yalies--at least the ones we know--always looked like mannekins in a J. Press window. Evidently, however, there are those who do not appreciate the value of conservative tailoring, and the administration decided to take the matter in hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ties for Elis | 9/26/1957 | See Source »

...people, you might get what you are after, but it would have been quicker and cheaper to take a course in salesmanship. If you spend your spare time playing bridge, you will be a good bridge player; if you spend it in reading, discussing and thinking of things that matter, you will be an educated person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Scholar in Politics | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...Silber's direction, five top seniors met two afternoons a week from 3:30 to 6. By the end of the school year, they had ground five varieties of fruit in a blender, whirled the fruit mixed with pure ethyl alcohol in a centrifuge to separate the solid matter, run the remaining solution through ion exchange columns to remove the salts, and then removed the water to isolate the pure amino acid extract. This year's group of five students will start to identify the acids. Silber pays his boys and girls 35? an hour ("enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: High-School Researchers | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...choice U.S. markets. Last week, as Pan American World Airways inaugurated a long-contemplated polar route from San Francisco to Paris, the French government threatened to halt the flights unless its Air France got a similar route-and the U.S. State Department quickly said that it would consider the matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: -OVERSEAS AIR ROUTES-: Is the U.S. Giving Away Too Much? | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

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