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Word: placement (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences has announced the appointment of Thomas E. Crooks '49 as Director of the Office of Student Placement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Director Appointed To Replace Newby | 10/17/1956 | See Source »

...permit integration anyway and support its school on its own? To prevent that-and to make sure that the drastic fundwithholding idea will be only a last resort -the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate passed three supplementary bills to keep segregation as safe as possible: ¶The "pupil placement" bill sets up a special board, appointed by the governor, to classify and assign all public-school pupils. If a parent becomes dissatisfied with the board's decision, he will have to appeal to the governor, and, if still dissatisfied, start legal proceedings that would probably take at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Virginians | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

Over 170 secondary school seniors took one or more of the advanced placement tests offered officially at all schools for the first time this Spring, Harlan P. Hanson '46, Director of the Office of Advanced Standing, revealed yesterday. Candidates had to get satisfactory grades on three exams to become sophomores. Those who succeeded in less than three tests may get a later reduction in their course requirements, Hanson stated...

Author: By Blaise G.A. Pastory, | Title: Sophomore Places Won By 11 Entering College | 9/28/1956 | See Source »

...Danger. The one quality Klee would not tolerate was vagueness. He contrived an elaborate visual lexicon in which he "explained" his favorite devices (dots, lines, arrows, planes) and assigned to each a meaning according to its direction or placement. But, as in Fire Wind (opposite), little more than the title is actually necessary to decipher a Klee painting. The red arrows indicate motion, in this case of wind feeding the fire, while the green arrows struggle to hem the flames in against the background darkness. She Howls, We Play uses lines that are a cross between wire sculpture and children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Magician's Handwriting | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...part-time jobs (30%), allowances (45%), or both (22%), they average $10.55 a week, of which $6.52 is spent and $4.03 saved. The State University of Iowa also had financial news. Of the university's 9,000 students (1955-56), 55% got part-time jobs through the student placement office. They worked as janitors, lab assistants, waiters and clerks, mowed lawns, washed windows, shoveled snow. Total earnings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tycoons (j. g.) | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

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