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Word: returning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...methods of instruction. Some courses, especially in General Education, have already experimented with the use of papers instead of examinations, and more can be done in this area. In any case, examinations should be brought nearer to the ideal of educational usefulness by more careful marking and return of the papers to the students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The College Scene | 5/27/1948 | See Source »

...they achieve their goals of H.A.A. recognition and equine assistance, the Crimson players should return to a full schedule. Yale, Williams, Cornell, Georgetown, Norwich, and the University of Miami have already organized teams, and plans are astride in several other Eastern colleges for a polo renascence...

Author: By Aloysius B. Mccabe, | Title: Crimson Sports | 5/25/1948 | See Source »

...battered streets, music lovers stopped to wring the hand of 71-year-old Conductor Bruno Walter. He had come back to preside over a ceremony as symbolic as his own return: the restoration to the Vienna State Opera of a Rodin bust of another Viennese hero-Gustav Mahler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Homecoming | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...about $280 million, besides what local governments in the tropics spend. But there is a danger of starting a campaign and then running out of money. A medical entomologist in the British colonial service warned: "If work should cease, even for a relatively short time, the vectors [mosquitoes] would return and we would be in the position of having produced a population without natural immunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polluted Reservoir | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Selznick agreed to lend Korda his constellation of stars* in return for western hemisphere ownership of all pictures they might make in England. For the first time, Korda had something like the weight he needs to wrestle with Rank for the British box office. He promptly made plans to star Jennifer Jones in a Technicolor version of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Gregory Peck in a Technicolored Tale of Two Cities. Also on the schedule: Joseph Conrad's An Outcast of the Islands, Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point, Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, Jules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hands Across the Sea | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

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