Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...billion within the next ten years (v. 1958's $39 billion) unless it faces up soon to some basic choices. Next week at the U.S. Marine station at Quantico, Va., 175 of the nation's top military and civilian defense experts will take off coats and jackets, roll up their sleeves to wrestle with the big questions. Items:
...Referring to a "one-eyed, one-horned . . . pigeontoed, underclothed" visitor from outer space, celebrated in a current rock 'n' roll hit. Asked his line, he replies: "Eatin' purple people, and it sure is fine...
Again, the question of competition as a stimulus to scholastic activity is a complex one. Some find the battle for first place in the class or for the honor roll a sufficient spur to hard work. But there are bright students who are unmoved by such competition, and for them, the increasing pressure on college admissions offices is often the activating force, at least in their final years of school...
...preparatory institution, Scarsdale is highly competitive for both "honor-roll" and average students. There is an intensive scramble among bright pupils to "make" a good college, and one of the hardest tasks of the deans is advising students to look colleges other than the traditional ones in the East. Of 194 graduates in 1956 who went on to further schooling, forty-six ended up at Ivy League institutions or one of the "big-name" schools for girls...
...year's assistance in the school office, library, or audio-visual classes yields one-half unit of credit. Once, students received credit for assisting teachers with grading papers and checking roll, but this is now discouraged...