Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graduate with honors, the dean continued, one must prepare a long paper, and pass a special honors examination, in addition to passing the comprehensive examination within her department...
...seasoned crew headed by Helmsman Briggs Cunningham handled the victor with professional skill, but the races were apparently decided months before in a special testing tank at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. There, Olin Stephens tested various scale-model hull designs under all kinds of simulated speeds and heels. He went ahead to develop on the drawing board the graceful contour lines that turned out to be Columbia. (The British were testing, too-and in tanks patterned after those of the Stevens Institute...
...first big sale of securities since early August, the Treasury last week showed how fast interest rates are climbing. It offered $1 billion in 13-month notes paying 3½%, v. 1½% for short-term securities sold in August, and $2.5 billion in special 219-day bills priced to yield 3¼%. Only three months ago Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson sold 27-year bonds, which usually sell at a far higher rate than short-term securities, at only...
Diplomatic Diet. To document their case, the authors-Captain William J. Lederer, U.S.N., an Annapolis graduate and special assistant to Admiral Felix B. Stump in the Pacific, and Political Scientist and Novelist (The Ninth Wave) Eugene Burdick-have chosen to write a series of fictional sketches "based on fact." They are really a series of crude, black-and-white cartoons...
...objects owned by Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates will be shown in a special exhibition at the Fogg Museum scheduled for the middle of February...