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Word: schoolings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pakistan's hot, dusty capital last week, the students of Karachi University were still brooding over the posting of the worst examination results in the school's nine-year history. Fully 80% of the student body had failed one or more courses, and most of the failures were boys. The reason? Girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: Deadlier than the Male | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...many parts of the country, women are still kept in purdah, and before marriage Pakistani boys seldom meet a female who is not a close relative. With rare exceptions there is no teen-age dating, there are no mixed parties, and the sexes are segregated through grade and high school. But at Karachi University, nearly 5,000 of the 16,000 students are girls-emancipated girls who no longer hide beneath the traditional sack-like burka that shrouds devout Moslem women from head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: Deadlier than the Male | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...team. "What else could I say?" Clark was true to his word. He went as far away as the famed muscle factories of Pennsylvania to land Tackle Dan Ficca (6 ft. 1 in., 230 lbs.). But Clark's prize finds were waiting at Mount Carmel High School, right in Southern Cal's own home town of Los Angeles. As high-school All-Americas, Mike and Marlin McKeever got offers from some 40 colleges, including Notre Dame and Oklahoma. Says Marlin: "We picked U.S.C. because of its high scholastic rating, and because the team was down and we were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Twin Trojan Horses | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Altdorfer, leader of the "Danube School," saw the world as a stage, but a stage of infinite beauty and variety. Head in the lap of the treacherous Delilah, his Samson sleeps in the foreground of a landscape that is as weird and as familiar as a dream. Behind a bare tree in the background hover the Philistines, ready to pounce upon the sheared ram of God. Watteau's study of lovers in a park makes black, white and red stand for all the colors of the rainbow. In Watteau, love and laughter blend into one. To round the gallery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: GREAT DRAWINGS | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...humorous, and impressive history. Many of the men who will play in the almost 400-piece reunion band are those who have been responsible for establishing the Band's unique position in the University community and its fame throughout the country. Although beset by war years, financial worries, rival school's cheering sections, and the Dean's Office, the group has always in its 40 years managed to entertain its audiences and have a good time doing...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: University Band Celebrates 40th Anniversary | 10/24/1959 | See Source »

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