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Word: notting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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In Waterville, Me., a tall, friendly man of 65 sat back and mused: "I think I was born to teach, not to be a college president." J. (for Julius) Seelye Bixler should have known better. Last week, as his successor prepared to take over solid little Colby College, retiring President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rising to Quality | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Into Bixler's shoes this month steps Colby's Dean of Faculty Robert E. L. Strider, 42, who taught English at Connecticut College before switching to Colby in 1957. More "intellectual curiosity" is new President Strider's aim. It would not have been possible if Colby had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rising to Quality | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Pyrographite can be deposited in sheets up to ½ in-thick, can be shaped to form rocket nozzles and caps for nose cones. Both these parts get punishing heat concentrated on rather small areas. The beauty of Pyrographite is that it conducts heat away from these danger points as fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Heat, Lengthwise | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

"A New Society." To support their hunches. Drake and other radio astronomers cite a closely reasoned paper published this fall by Cornell Physicists Philip Morrison and Giuseppe Cocconi, who postulate an advanced society not far away (as space distances go) that has long been "expecting the development of science near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Anybody Out There? | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Happily married, and with an art teaching job to make ends meet, Florsheim still felt and painted misery. His black works found few buyers; he did not mind. "You wouldn't expect someone two years out of college to be made president of General Motors, because you know he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: OUT OF THE NIGHT | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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