Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this week's color story on railroading, Vandivert traveled for two months and some 23,000 miles up and down and across the U.S. To help him get his pictures, railroaders everywhere set up special timetables for their prized new rolling stock. Union Pacific blocked its main line 30 minutes at Green River, Wyo., while Vandivert photographed three different types of power plants used in mountain hauling. Southern Pacific trainmen, not to be outdone, tape-measured the 4,745-11. length of an 87-car piggyback freight train, laid out the same distance along California's San Luis...
There has been no change for honors candidates in either the Special examinations at the end of senior year, or in Part I of the junior year Generals, which tests the type of material covered in junior and sophomore tutorial...
...effect of this change is to put the poorer student in a more precarious position. Previously, if he failed his Generals in his junior year, he could get a degree by passing the special examinations senior year. But now, if he fails Part II of the Generals his senior year, he has no second chance...
Harris emphasized, however, that he supported such a tax only in special circumstances. "In general," he said, "I'm against sales taxes...
Unfortunately, the speech will probably mean little in practice. Because the President expects only unity, not conformity, does not mean that Red China will be admitted to the United Nations. The President's censure of self-rightiousness probably will not prevent John Foster Dulles from demanding special privileges in NATO. The moral approval of sharing burdens will not make the burdens much easier to share economically...