Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From chilly Crescent City to the fur-nacelike Imperial Valley last week the skies were clear and charged with excitement as 3,750,000 California primary voters went to the polls in the major U.S. primary election of 1958. Setting an off-year primary record, 64% of California's Republicans and 60% of the Democrats turned out. And by nightfall the big news was that California Democrats, traditionally nonpartisan types who dissipated their big margin in registration (currently 990,000) by voting for well-known Republicans in California's cross-filing primary system, this year voted the straight...
...Class of 1933, the depression class, will present the University with a record-breaking quarter century class gift of $425,000 this afternoon at the Harvard Alumni Association meeting...
This sum exceeds the record sum contributed last year by the Class of 1932 by almost $75,000. Late contributions may push the present total even higher. The official figure will be anounced when Dr. Irad B. Hardy, Jr. '33 marshal of the alumni, presents the Class gift to President Pusey...
...average student Scarsdale presents an already fiercely competitive system. From the ninth grade on, pupils are constantly spurred by reminders of the admission hurdles which lie ahead. Teachers not infrequently employ the threat to mark infractions on a student's "college record" as a disciplinary persuader. Gradually through a student's four years the pressure of getting into a choice school builds up until it reaches a peak of tension in the winter and spring of his senior year. There seems to be, in general, too much of a stress laid on achieving college admission...
...high school guidance counselor was talking about course selection to a junior with a straight-A record. "But certainly you don't want to carry more than three academic subjects your senior year?" she said. "You'll want to devote plenty of time to your school's activities...