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Word: orientating (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group, in addition, will publish material to orient incoming freshmen to shopping problems and opportunities in Cambridge and Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Starts Group For Better Business | 11/22/1955 | See Source »

...Tseng believes, demand an education that is both broader and more practical than that offered in the traditional Chinese university system. Tunghai students will get heavy doses of history, the classics, the social sciences. They will also be required to do some nonacademic labor (a radical innovation in the Orient, where intellectuals have traditionally regarded manual labor as degrading). Since Tunghai is located in rich farming land, the university may eventually establish a student farm that will supply its own needs, and perhaps sell to the community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Pioneers | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...polio as a killer. After giving up to 500,000 inoculations with a killed-virus vaccine which proved too weak to be effective, the U.S. Army is now ready to begin laboratory testing of a greatly improved vaccine which may lick Japanese B entirely for Americans in the Orient. But even if it works (which will take years to determine), the Japanese themselves are not likely to benefit. In the homeland of Japanese B. vaccines against it are rated too costly for humans; they are reserved for imported race horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case of Japanese B | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

...Democratic track there was a good deal of joggling, which gave the situation its most unreal quality. From the Orient, Tennessee's Estes Kefauver sent back word that he had not yet made up his mind-an announcement that most observers took as another indication that he is already racing. Adlai Stevenson, continuing to insist that he has not decided whether to run, stepped out and made his first major political speech of the season. Averell Harriman, who has said that he is not running, was the guest of honor at a big political rally in his own back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Dodo's Dance | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

...staging more troops than it handled (182,000) in World War II. And when the rest of the 3rd Marine Division, now scattered from Japan to Hawaii, makes its scheduled move to Okinawa when housing is ready, Okinawa will be headquarters for the largest Marine striking force in the Orient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: OKINAWA: Levittown-on-the-Pacific | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

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