Word: skips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These men said, however, that they would probably favor the remainder of the plan and recommend some of their exceptional students to skip the freshman year at college...
...example, a student could skip as many semesters as he was capable, provided he could pay the bursar fifteen dollars for every term passed. A "good moral character" was also necessary if the student was to have full approval from the Faculty. By 1857 course requirements had tightened, leaving the scholar little choice in his curriculum. The only lenient measure was a course reduction that allowed the student's father to request that such subjects as Greek or Latin be omitted from his son's long list of required languages. With the Civil War came a trend toward less rigid...
...certain to pay off: the public had bought out all announced performances. Perhaps the only dissenting voice was raised by Dance Critic John Martin of the Times, who pointed out that Nutcracker has too little formal dancing and not even much plot, advised fellow purists, unless bringing children, to skip the first...
Dawson, now 64, has spent the last 40 years examining how Christianity got itself into Europe's bloodstream, and how and why it made the body grow. He has focused his studies on Europe's Middle Ages, a period that many European historians skip over lightly.* Although a Roman Catholic himself, Dawson does not take the tack of the conventional Catholic medieval apologist, who regards the period as a happy but vanished Golden Age when there were no Protestants around. For Historian Dawson, the Middle Ages can be studied only as a fusion of religion and culture...
...Prensa, Staats-Zeitung und Her old and Il Progresso Italo-Americano sold fast. The sensational weekly Enquirer (est. circ. 75,000) turned into a daily and upped its press run the first day of the strike to 250,000, went to 500,000, then was forced to skip a few days because "we're awfully tired." Newspaper-hungry readers bought magazines so fast that one newsstand operator pointed out: "All I got left is cheesecake and science fiction...