Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ph.D. Since competition for a place in at least the major colleges is keen, students are aware as never before of their academic record-a record that has followed them from their very first days of school. "With more and more guys graduating from college," says Columbia Senior Peter Earth, "you're no longer looked up to if you went to college. You're just looked down upon if you didn't get a degree." But a simple bachelor's degree is not really enough. At Harvard, where only one in 100 students now qualifies...
Take Care. Making such breakneck gyrations look like doing what comes naturally has boosted Jim Shoulders, at 29, into the biggest-money-winning rodeo rider on record. Last year he was top bareback rider, top bull rider and top all-around cowboy for the second time, and he earned $43,381. This season, injuries have slowed him down. He may earn a little less money, but when the season ends this week in Harrisburg. Pa. he should be at the top of the lists once more in bareback bronc and bull riding...
...After trying unsuccessfully for months to break the world's water speed record in the U.S., Donald Campbell took his big, jet-powered bug back to Britain, dunked it in Lancashire's Lake Coniston and screamed to a new mark: 239.07 m.p.h., more than 13 m.p.h. better than...
...there was a long-drawn sigh of delight, followed by a bedlam of bids as 18 green-uniformed bid callers and four assistant auctioneers tried to keep up with the rush that shot the price in 2 min. 15 sec. from a $15,000 opener to a Vuillard world record of $70,000. To the consternation of the mink-coated main-salesroom elite, the loudspeaker bids from lesser collectors relegated to the TV sets kept right up with the big money...
Nearly every U.S. record for top painters fell. By the time the evening was out, old collectors had staged a comeback, and newcomers had made their bid for fame. Among the most significant sales: ¶ Actor Edward G. Robinson, who last February had parted with a fortune in paintings to complete a divorce settlement, was on the telephone from Montreal (where he is touring in The Middle of the Night), picked up Derain's Vase of Flowers for $5,500, Georges Braque's The Sausage for $12,000. ¶ Mrs. David Rockefeller went $11,000 over estimates...