Word: roading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Monro categorized the change in three main themes, emphasizing first that students at the College now have an increasing quality of academic ability. He told about 200 alumni and their wives that a college career is no longer the end of the road educationally. At least 80 per cent of today's senior class--about twice as many as in 1934--will go on to graduate school, he said...
...wasn't a lark by any means. No question but that the road was rough at times, and we did ford a few streams (this was the rainy season). But we have encountered plenty of rough road during construction right here in Connecticut and up in New Hampshire...
...fight against. Three months ago, disgruntled Buganda political leaders formed the Uganda National Movement and declared an economic boycott against non-African bus companies, shops, and products. Picketing gangs stood outside rural Indian stores to keep farmers away by force, to the delight of African merchants down the road, who promptly raised their prices. Two hundred Africans who own cars have made a mint as taxi operators since a boycott was declared against the white-owned bus line...
Last fall this hilarious enterprise was boffo at the Texas State Fair and invitations to hit the road in Britain landed on Reeve's desk. To pay their way, the players kicked in their savings, worked at all sorts of odd jobs, raised $10,000 on their own. Friends, teachers, fellow students boosted the ante to $17,000. Result: the Howard Payne Dream will be sole U.S. representative at Bristol's prestigious International Festival of University Theater, and for nine weeks will get top billing at professional theaters in Coventry, Northampton, Cambridge, and Dundee, Scotland. If this...
Well, almost himself. Billy Bailey is 73 and runs Singapore's Coconut Grove, an obscure and homey bar (no unescorted women allowed) next door to a Buddhist nunnery on Singapore's Cuppage Road. A guitar keeps the air moving. The drinks are on the level, and the talk is good, since Iowa-born, ex-Vaudevillian Bailey does most...