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Word: priore (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bureau advises seniors to ask their prospective schools when and if they should take the tests; it also requires that applications be filed at least ten days prior to the law exam and two weeks before the graduate school test...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ETS Schedules Law, Graduate Entrance Tests | 9/24/1952 | See Source »

London's Sunday Observer was set to add its voice to the critical clamor until the cold facts sunk in. Instead, the Observer confessed: "Everything . . . turns on the question; Was there, prior to the Yalu raids, a lull, a tacit cease-fire or near-cease-fire in Korea?" The Observer had done a little quick homework and was startled by its findings: "The plain fact-continuous and hence unreported-is that there has been a long-drawn battle which has been in progress almost since the start of the armistice talks." In this light, the Observer was alarmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Irresponsible Ally? | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

...well as its devil dogs. One of the gayest, Alexander Hare, a rich English trader, settled on one of the beautiful atolls of the Cocos-Keeling Islands in 1827 with a slave harem of 117 beauties from Malaya, Java, Bali and points east. A former partner and prior claimant, John Clunies-Ross, a Scot, soon showed up with his family and a crew of predatory bachelors. To keep them out of what he called his "flower garden," the latter-day Solomon ladled out rum to Ross's men, penned his women in a stockade on another island, and kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pretty Good Ocean | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

...chairman of the special commission, Senator George J. Evans (R-Wake-field) filed a minority report in which he said that "the majority report simply amplifies a prior presumption." He said that analysis of the available figures on the number and distribution of doctors "shows that there is no substantial basis for the recommendation that Massachusetts establish a medical and dental college at the expense of the taxpayer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State Committee Recommends New Medical School for Boston District | 5/31/1952 | See Source »

...Allow an "impartial commission" to determine whether there exist in East Germany the conditions necessary for free elections. Such conditions-free balloting, freedom to campaign, etc.-must be maintained "not only on the day of voting, and prior to it, but also thereafter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Point for the West | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

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