Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...masthead at left this week appears a new name in an old setting. TIME, after several years of reliance on special trips by correspondents for on-the-spot reporting from Russia, now has its own Moscow bureau again. The correspondent: Edmund Stevens, 48, a highly respected. Pulitzer-prizewin-ning reporter who has spent 13 of the past 23 years in Moscow. Denver-born Ed Stevens first went to Russia after graduation from Columbia University, there met (at an economics lecture) and married blonde Nina Andreyevna. Except for time-outs to cover ten World War II battle campaigns, from Finland...
...long as they can support themselves. Already they have survived a good many hard knocks from the outside: the one-two punch of the 1929 Depression and the founding of the House system, for instance, before which time members usually ate three meals a day in the Club, enjoyed special benefits such as theatre ticket services and private Club railway cars for the Yale football game and crew race, and generally ran up bills of $150 to $200 a month...
...only supervision coming from a faculty adviser. Each member of the group, which averages about twelve a year, is selected from approximately 40 applicants each of whom have at least an 85 average, or in lieu of such an average must be extraordinarily proficient in the field of his special interests. "Most important," the catalogue says, "he must have demonstrated to the satisfaction of his instructors his capacity for independent work...
...rushing system entirely in the harsh light of the superficiality, injustice and distress which are its characteristics. Not only does it train the Rush Committees for later life, but a good rushee will emerge broad gauge. Approximately 30 percent of each class is given the advantage of this special training. Although 30 percent is a democratic enough figure, the College Dean's office reports that four fifths of this group attended private schools...
...long as they can support themselves. Already they have survived a good many hard knocks from the outside: the one-two punch of the 1929 Depression and the founding of the House system, for instance, before which time members usually ate three meals a day in the Club, enjoyed special benefits such as theatre ticket services and private Club railway cars for the Yale football game and crew race, and generally ran up bills of $150 to $200 a month...