Word: obtainable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should place on the writing of essays. In the five large departments, a man's grades are determined by term papers and essay examinations. Yet outside of a few restricted compositions courses and extracurricular work, the undergraduate has no chance to develop all-important writing skills. A student could obtain individual attention on his papers in a five man group; this would be almost impossible if three or four more men were added...
Willie McGee, convicted of rape, was electrocuted early this morning after three Eliot House residents had made a long-distance call to Mississippi Governor Fielding Wright in a vain effort to obtain a pardon for the condemned...
...advantages are abvious, as shown by the enthusiastic response to college debating where the system is used in England. Speakers obtain experience is swaying audiences rather than in fulfilling a formal set of rules for a single judge in an empty room. The audience receives a stimulating evening. And if the oratory is good enough, the debate group can successfully charge admission...
...Price of Pioneering. Du Pont is convinced that it can stay healthy and keep growing only by plowing tremendous sums into research, thus obtain enough new products to spark its sales as old markets decline. It spent $38 million on research last year, will dedicate a new $30 million research center at Wilmington next month. "It took us ten years and $27 million to bring nylon to the production stage," says Greenewalt. "But for every nylon that hits the jackpot, there are 20 other gambles that fail to pay off. If we could not afford to carry the 19 failures...
Rules which the Council voted it would accept were: 1.) admission fees are permissable only for supporting an organization; 2.) groups taking part in public performances must obtain prior permission of the Dean's Office; 3.) women guests should not enter the premises of undergraduate organizations without special permission of the Dean...