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Word: scopes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flamboyantly headlined in the press, are currently troubling both public and police. After seven months of poring over statistics and case histories, New Jersey's Commission on the Habitual Sex Offender last week issued a report. One of its main conclusions: the average citizen knows little about the scope and nature of sex crimes, but he is oversupplied with misinformation on the subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Unknown Sex Fiend | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

Approximately 120 schools in Canada, Latin America, Europe, and the Near East will offer a wide scope of courses. On the agenda is everything from study of the Gregorian chant to Cuban flora and fauna, Shakespearean drama to Greek Arvin archeology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer Schools Beckon To Student Globe-Trotters | 2/7/1950 | See Source »

Approximately 120 schools in Canada, Latin America, Europe and the Near East will offer a wide scope of courses. On the agenda is everything from study of the Gregorian chant to Cuban flora and fauna, Shakespearean drama to Greek temperature, or the French language to craven archeology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer Schools Beckon To Student Globe-Trotters | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...removed the clause calling for investigation of all "persons sympathetic to communism or its doctrines"; the other widened the probe's scope from the teaching profession to all suspected communist activities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Legislature Rules Committee Plans Red Probe Bill Review | 1/28/1950 | See Source »

Prognosticators searching among the unknown contributors for tomorrow's literary white-haired boy will find New Directions' radar scope pretty murky. Most of the brand-new writers in N.D. XI stick to well-worn avant-garde trails, either rediscover a flabby surrealism("The rabbits jumped on the bed and sat in a furry row, staring") or, like Harvard Student John Hawkes, lose their story in a messy Joycean montage of elliptical dialogue and overfertilized imagery. A deadening number of these interior probings take place on college campuses, where they should have been published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Directions | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

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