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Word: overnights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reading about the rigorous study habits of Soviet students, a coed in the Winter Park (Fla.) Glenridge Junior High School civics class piped up one day to ask: "Do you suppose we could do it?" Social Studies Teacher Hugh Ansley, 24, a traditionalist at heart, thought about it overnight, next day, with his class's backing, decided to give it a try. For the next seven weeks, his civics students were to act as much as possible like little Russians, but without the indoctrination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Transformation | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

Today. Sleepy Huntsville, "the water cress capital of the world," came alive almost overnight; its easy Southern cadences intermixed with the get-it-done twang of Yankee technicians and the business-first guttural of the German scientists. Although only one of the cotton mills now remains in operation, Huntsville thrives as never before on an $81-million-a-year Army payroll. Where once Huntsville extended a mile in each direction from its yellow brick courthouse, it now covers 40 square miles, with gracious antebellum homes, squalid Negro slums, and $15,000-per-unit development homes for Redstone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: ROCKET CITY, U.S.A. | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

Next morning gusts up to 38 m.p.h. and temperatures in the low 405 discouraged much golf. But Ike did play the Augusta National's sheltered 11th-through-14th holes, then returned to the cabin for more bridge. Overnight, the temperature fell to subfreezing. This week, rested but not very much exercised, the President flew back to Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: In Stride | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...charge that propelled him to success, a ditty called Honeycomb recorded several months ago for a small New York label, hymns in strongly rolling accents the wonders of birds, bees and matrimony. By a mysterious chemistry that even the song pluggers do not understand, the song became an overnight sock. Jimmie followed it up with his current hit, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine, which is also sweeter than syrup. Jimmie's professional equipment includes a pleasant, relaxed young voice, a hunchy, fingersnapping rhythmic sense, and a totally undistinguished way with a guitar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Jukebox Wonder | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

...after a two-year rise from copyboy to overnight editor of Chicago's hardboiled, fast-moving City News Bureau,* brash, blond Bruce Sagan (rhymes with pagan) paid $2,500 for a withered weekly called the Hyde Park Herald. Breathing life into the body and new fire into the Southside community. Publisher Sagant mounted a hard-hitting campaign for slum clearance, coupled picture spreads of slum dwellings (including owners' names) with authoritative how-to-do-it articles on redevelopment. Outcome: Hyde Park qualified for federal aid as the Midwest's first and biggest project of this type approved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Maverick's Rise | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

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