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Word: recruits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goal will be to recruit a student body not markedly distinguishable at entrance from those of first-rate colleges. Inevitably, the fact that New College is a new kind of institution will tend to attract, during the first years, students to whom pioneering makes an appeal. That will be all to the good...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Attack on Academic Rigidity Calls for 'Major Departure' | 2/20/1959 | See Source »

Last week Continental ended its most ambitious drive to recruit "65-Plus" policyholders in seven states-New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, Delaware-and the District of Columbia. Previously Continental had offered the plan in Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and California, and it is expected to add more states soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Automation for Oldsters | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...gave Cook so much drive that it began underbidding big companies for contracts during World War II. developed a specialized technique for welding Monel. a nickel alloy needed in atomic reactors, after several corporate giants had given up. After the war. Hasselhorn sent teams hustling around the U.S. to recruit brainpower, signed up several employees himself after delivering his pitch over the ham radio he operates as a hobby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Electronic Brainpower | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

Castro went to Mexico to recruit men and money. One summer evening in 1956, he stole across the Rio Grande near McAllen, Texas. Castro spent the next day in McAllen's Casa de Palmas Hotel with the richest Batista-hater of all: ex-President Carlos Prío Socarrás, 55, who had been bounced from office by the dictator's coup eight months before his term was up and began plotting so persistently that he is still under U.S. indictment for violating the Neutrality Act. "Here was the timber of a hero," said Pro. As President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The Vengeful Visionary | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...where several of this year's representatives were elected unopposed. Nor was this situation due to the presence of several overwhelmingly popular candidates, but rather, in some cases, to an absence of any candidates at all, until the very night of the election. One House Committee actually had to recruit candidates to stand for election...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Renaissance? | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

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