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Word: old (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing shutting down for lack of students and money? Well-qualified applicants are still plentiful here. We are simply moving with the times to change our 106-year-old diploma nursing school into a three-year master of science program for non-nurse college graduates. Anticipated result? The theoretical strengths of university-level instruction plus the solid clinical experience we have traditionally offered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 17, 1979 | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...more information on a particular area is needed, aircraft can be called upon to supplement the satellite. The needle-sleek Lockheed SR-71 (Blackbird), which flies more than three times as fast as sound at above 85,000 ft., makes occasional photo-reconnaissance runs over Cuba. The old standby, the, U2, also goes on photographic and electronic "ferreting" missions, but it remains almost 20 miles high and well outside Cuban airspace to keep from being shot down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Where Was Our Man in Havana? | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...betraying the Arab cause" by signing the Camp David accord. When Egyptian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Butros Ghali vainly sought to defend his government, he was met by a flood of invective from the other Arab delegations. Even Jordan's King Hussein joined with his old adversary, Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, in lambasting Anwar Sadat's "unilateral dealing with Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Castro's Showpiece Summit | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...everybody is so sure the drama department will be all there this year, however Samuel J. Bloomfield '79, former secretary of the Harvard-Radcliffe Drama Club (HRDC) believes this year will be one of transition while old staff members who resigned when Brustein was hired are busy looking for new jobs. "In theory Chapman (professor of English who heads the drama department but will be leaving that post next year) is running the Loeb, but in reality this year the Leob will be a totally student-oriented place--no staff and very little professionalism," Bloomfield says...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: Putting Art in the Liberal Arts | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

Others cited Vellucci's work on behalf of Cambridge's elderly as their reason for backing him. "Being old himself, he understands and feels for us," a woman said. "The old are the Socrates of the cities and he takes care of them," another added...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Vellucci, Friends Gather for Party | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

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