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Word: readings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time limitations should be observed, O'Neil went on, but those taking exams should try to write as much as possible, keeping in mind, however, "that a grader hates to read an awful amount of junk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Grader Advises Freshmen On Succeeding in Mid-Year Exams | 1/14/1959 | See Source »

...resolution signed by the majority read as follows: "We can find no proof of dishonesty in the conduct of the Class Marshal election. We uphold its legitimacy and believe there is not sufficient cause for a new election." The signers were Alfred S. Arkley (Leverett), R. Dyke Benjamin (Marshal), George L. Damoose (Kirkland), D. Dwight Dogherty, Jr. (Dunster) Levon Kasarjian, Jr. (Winthrop), Marc E. Leland (First Marshal), J.R. Richardson, Jr. (Adams), and Richard E. Rubenstein (Alternate Marshal...

Author: By Alfred FRIENDLY Jr., | Title: Class Committee Deems Marshal Election Honest | 1/13/1959 | See Source »

Worms notwithstanding, Teacher Duff plans to end her year-long Stateside furlough this month, fly back to continue educating the Amueshas. Her task: to teach the Indians to read, to transcribe literature-including the Bible-into Amuesha. using a phonetic alphabet she helped devise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Alphabet for Amueshas | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...major contribution of Potter's new handbook is the appearance of a bearded character known only as The Lawrenceman. It was never certain that he had ever actually read the works of D. H. Lawrence, but he had got hold of a few phrases and made brilliant use of them. There was, for instance, the occasion when a tweedy iconoclast named Cornelius Sticking loudly criticized a county family for putting on their best clothes to go to church on Sundays. The Lawrenceman merely looked out over his beard and asked mildly: "Is that a badness?" Sticking only managed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ploy Boy | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...more than a decade Morros went through the motions of espionage. He could tell the Russians little they could not read in the papers: his main role was to provide jobs and a front for others. Under orders from "Herbert," who was succeeded by "Peter;" he founded a $136,000 record-publishing company with Millionaire Leftist Alfred K. Stern as partner. Stern did not know a bar of music, but he was married to Martha Dodd, daughter of F.D.R.'s Ambassador to Germany, and, on Morros' showing, one of the more poisonous women to appear in U.S. history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Show Biz to Spy Biz | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

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