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Word: pasadena (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five-year-old John Muir College* at Pasadena (enrollment: 2,000) has no more than the average quota of campus sin. But to Fred Phelps, 21, a tall (6 ft. 3 in.), craggy-faced engineering student from Meridian, Miss., John Muir is a weed-grown vineyard. Day after day this spring he has called upon his fellow students to repent. His method: to walk up to groups of boys & girls munching their lunchtime sandwiches in the quadrangle, ask "May I say a few words?" and launch into a talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Repentance In Pasadena | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

...Pasadena, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 28, 1951 | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

...missile's first flights are generally made on a calculating machine, such as the REAC (Reeves Instrument Corp.) analogue computer used by CalTech at the Army's Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Pasadena. The performance characteristics of the missile's components go into this brainy machine in the form of dial settings; the results come out as curves drawn on paper. A simulated flight takes only a few seconds and costs almost nothing. Between flights, adjustments can be made to see if the missile can be improved by altered tail surfaces or controls. To test such details...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Birds of Mars | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

...Crawford of the Westridge School in Pasadena, California, has won first people in the Radcliffe English prize scholarship examination, Dean Kerby-Miller announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Chooses Three English Prize Exams | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

...Pasadena, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 14, 1951 | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

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