Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the expanded tutorial, students will have a chance to take five full courses during the junior year without extra charge. However, McCloskey warned against such action, since "tutorial will be greatly enlarged and far more important than in the past...
Hymns & Handel. For the past eight years, fringe-bearded Alan Lomax, now 43, has been tracking down such leads, fitting together musical jigsaw pieces of many a puzzle about the family of man. He has collaborated with leading folklorists the world over, listened to miles of music already on tape, added taped material of his own and edited the best into comprehensible form. Columbia so far has issued 16 remarkable annotated albums (covering almost as many areas) in a projected 30-to 40-album series, and Westminster this month releases the sixth of a scheduled eleven albums of Lomax material...
...there were signs aplenty last week that the worst was over. Nonfarm employment jumped 339,000 from July to August. The average factory work week also advanced to 39.4 hours, up more than an hour since April. In past recessions a pickup in the factory week has led to a significant increase in employment. Administration economists expect employment to go up as soon as automakers make peace with their workers (see below) and start to roll out the '59 models. But few expect the jump in jobs to match the fast pickup in production. The recession taught U.S. business...
...life. The background against which these visions take shape is composed of blasted heaths and stark, sun-baked mountains; in the foreground are a rich aristocracy and poor peasantry whose lot is still hard despite the great strides toward prosperity made by Sicily in the past decade. Between the two extremes roam the brigands and the men of the Mafia, who from time immemorial have existed by making the "protection" indispensable to prince and peasant...
Dean Kerby-Miller emphasized the academic achievements of the past year when she noted that 57 per cent of this year's sophomores, juniors and seniors were on the Dean's List, and 53 percent of the Class of '58 graduated with honors, one-fifth of them with Magnas or Summas...