Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition, since Exeter derives more than a third of its income from a large endowment (higher per student than Harvard University's), experimentation with the curriculum offers minimum financial benefits. If Exeter increased its size and went onto a four-quarter schedule, it would actually lose money (per student), despite the increased economic efficiency. Although the loss would be a matter of less than $40,000, and could easily be covered by a nominal increase in tuition, the fact remains that, for Exeter, or any school or college with a substantial endowment, the financial gain of the revised curriculum...
...went on, calmly spooning jelly onto your tray...
...China's answer seemed plain. At the height of last week's anniversary parade, 100 dark green tanks and 144 motorized artillery pieces clanked onto the broad square before Mao and Khrushchev. The pavement rang to the cadenced tread of 100,000 soldiers, sailors and airmen, and nine massive columns of militiamen. From overhead came the whine and rumble of 155 Chinese-made jet bombers and fighters. The procession ended, heavy with menace, as 700,000 workers marched by, 100 abreast, shouting, "Liberate Taiwan...
Last week, as Rome basked in bright autumn sunshine, the plight of Italy's pensioners was dramatized in a way that stung the conscience of the nation. Emerging from his office onto the bustling Via Nazionale, mustachioed Leopoldo de Virgilio, 40, head of the Ministry of Defense personnel section, headed home for his midday siesta. As he reached the corner of Via Napoli, a heavy-set man confronted him and asked: "May I have two minutes of your time?" Recognizing Laborer Galvino Lepori, 53, De Virgilio replied in annoyance: "I have nothing to say that...
Died. Sir Matthew Smith, 79, shy, frail British artist who spent most of 30 years in Paris absorbing the work of the Fauvists, waited until he was 46 for his first one-man show, poured onto canvas powerful landscapes and sensuous nudes in rich, lush splotches of color; in London...