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Word: null (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many of the teachers, the course is anything but a snap. While the pupils grasp the latest teaching with ease, the teachers must first discard much of what they were taught, master such new (to them) terms as Cartesian products, null sets and strict inequalities. "In trigonometry, for instance," says Supervisor Hoel, "the emphasis used to be on surveying and navigation. Now the emphasis is on vectors, the theory of sets, probability, statistics and symbolic logic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The New Mathematics | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

...null Bandung, Indonesia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 27, 1958 | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...expected the game to be even close, but the University of Pennsylvania's null Palestra was sold out long before the University of Kansas basketball team showed up last week for what promised to be a light workout with St. Joseph's College. For Philadelphia fans it was enough that they would have a chance to see Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain in action. The Negro star, all 7 ft. 2 in. of him, is their boy. This was their first chance, since he left Philadelphia's Overbrook High three years ago to see what The Stilt might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Taller Than That | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

...faint, sweet sounds that issued from his Transcendental trees and rocks. If he could hear sky-born music wherever he went, his friends and neighbors were less fortunate; they had to depend on the uncertain efforts of a handful of local groups, supplemented by occasional trips to Boston. In null century Concord, New Englanders do not find themselves so hampered-and Emerson would scarcely be left in peace to do his ethereal listening. Today's American, let him go where'er he will, hears the sound of music still-hardly celestial, but often sky-born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singing Land | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

Recent Travel: In 1954 they fled to Mexico City, later quietly liquidated null of assets in the U.S., last month threw in their U.S. citizenship and got easy-come, easy-go Paraguayan passports, made plans to move to safety behind the Iron Curtain. Mexico was getting ready, they thought, correctly, to extradite them to the U.S. to face grand-jury questioning about their espionage activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EXPATRIATES: The Travelers | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

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