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Word: parente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College. Yet, barely twenty-four hours after the HYDC split in two, Dean Watson stepped in and, reminiscent of a Wild West story, announced that the College was not big enough for both of them. Apparently the Currey faction has no right to official status if it parallels its parent group on policy or candidates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gags | 10/11/1952 | See Source »

Finally, the British proposed to give citizenship in the Federation of Malaya to some of the Chinese, e.g., those born in certain Malayan provinces, or those with one Malaya-born parent. By these standards, the British estimated, only about 350,000 Chinese would be eligible for citizenship. The Malays did not like the idea, but after months of negotiations, they finally agreed. When the bill became law, it brought a whopping surprise to Malaya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALAYA: 1,200,000 New Citizens | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

Columbia's Contemporary Civilization course, conceived in 1919, is parent of the modern American craze for "General Education." The "Great Books" and "integrated study" courses have their roots in this 33-year old experiment...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Columbia Suffers in Hustling Gotham Setting; Pushes Towards Cosmopolitan Student Body | 10/4/1952 | See Source »

...Massachusetts chapter of Americans for Democratic Action, the Liberal Union's parent organization, is backing Kennedy. It has also refused to endorse Dever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.L.U. Reverses 1950 Position on Dever, Kennedy | 10/2/1952 | See Source »

...others, Kerr is able to transmit the fights between maturity and boyishness which are typical of adolescents. Stewart seems too much like a morose Henry Aldrich. And in the same way, his mother, Irene Hervey, never become a real individual; she is always the doting and misguided parent. Beyerly Lawrence, however, does quite well in the confusing part of the mother's friend; it is a fuzzy hole because the script never adequately explains why she let herself be picked up in the first place. Another former Brattler, Michael Wager, does his best as Vernon, the grind, but this also...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: Bernadine | 9/24/1952 | See Source »

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