Word: recommended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last spring, after getting a $15,000 grant from Chicago's Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults, Director Spengler and Associate Professor (of English) Stern asked the faculty to recommend adults for the experiment. Of the 130 applicants, Spengler and Stern chose 32. Each student was supposed to cover the regular undergraduate work (128 credits), but before he started he was allowed to take examinations on any subject he thought he could pass without taking the regular course. The adults could go to class or not as they chose; they got extra reading assignments, had special...
...surveys showed that 20 million adults would be interested in investment plans similar to the Stock Exchange's Monthly Investment Plan ("pay as you go"). Among those already buying under M.I.P., 95% would recommend it to their friends, 53% expect to continue their programs indefinitely and another 32% will continue for from one to more than five years. Although 31% of the M.I.P. investors had never owned stock before the program began, 29% of the pay-as-you-go purchasers have also bought stocks outside the program...
...meetings exceeded the Key expectations," Branom said, adding that he would definitely recommend continuation of the meetings next year...
...council did not recommend changes in the letter award systems in crew wrestling, and squash. It voted to consider the opinions of the coaches carefully before making future allegations in these as well as other sports...
...responsible for the shape the movie puts her in. At ten fathoms, with a tank of oxygen on her back and her teeth clamped on an aqualung, Jane is not at her best. Even the sharks seem to pursue her with not much conviction. Although it has little to recommend it, Underwater promises to be a hard picture to avoid. Ten days before it was released, on the crest of an expense-be-damned publicity campaign, it had already racked up more bookings than any RKO movie in the past ten years...