Word: nones
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Most departments are reluctant to permit independent study within their fields, and virtually none have encouraged the student to seek new problems outside his area of concentration. Yet the original purpose of the course reduction program was to give the student a chance to pursue a subject of genuine interest, regardless of its relation to his field...
...school year quietly-too quietly for someone who saw that nine Negro children were peaceably attending classes with whites. This week, at three-minute intervals in the foggy early morning, three dynamite explosions gutted Clinton High School. Rather than have school for all, some wanton destroyer preferred school for none...
...Hoax. But armies also have bureaucracies. The Defense Ministry, completing its routine file, needed additional documentation on Schneider's German citizenship. The city officials of Goslar could find none, and thus began the first unraveling of a forged life that resulted last week in Robert Schneider's standing trial in Bonn for 52 cases of fraud, 25 cases of falsification of documents, and various charges of unlawfully assuming academic titles. While all Germany guffawed at the hoax pulled on the new German army, the state prosecutor indignantly stated that the accused was plain Robert Schneider, 39, a house...
...customer. Under the influence of booze and Byronism, he lives inside a gilded dream, that fools no one, of being a fine-born gentleman. He rides a thoroughbred mare while making his daughter a slavey; he sneers at the Yankees as vulgar traders while owing them money and enjoying none of their trade. His fiery daughter Sara, has a wellborn young American in tow, and when it comes out that the boy's father wants no truck with the peat-bog Melodys, Con rides swaggeringly forth to avenge such an insult with a challenge, only to stumble blankly home...
...hard-pressed appliance men, the turnabout came none too soon. Said Westinghouse Vice President Richard J. Sargent: "We are confident that the recession for this industry is over." Most of the industry agreed. Items: ¶Borg-Warner's Norge Division reported that September sales were up 29% for the best month in nearly two years. The company recalled more than 600 workers in three plants, put them on two shifts. Says Norge President Judson S. Sayre: "The way orders are landsliding, we could be sold out for the year by October 15." ¶General Electric's Appliance Park...