Word: spent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American educational craving for "three-two programs" (three years spent at a liberal arts college, followed by two years at an engineering school, sometimes hundreds of miles away) seems to make more sense as it is set up at Lehigh. The great drawback of the usual three-two program is that students who find it difficult to tear up roots at the end of their junior year refuse to move on and, instead, stay where they are and graduate in applied science, dropping out of engineering altogether. By providing the "three" and the "two" on the same campus, Lehigh encourages...
...anonymous donor has declared that he is "interested in helping, but not building" the mosque, Ibish said, and the Society must provide an equivalent sum before any of the money can be spent. Ibish explained that the Islamic Society is incapable of raising enough money...
Kozol doesn't develop what love in "perspective" is; how the "stupidity" of the "system" reaches out across oceans to pull back its victims; who is a likely victim and who is not. He has spent the greater part of his time rejoicing in discovery. His rejoicing is good and sexy, stylish, sometimes overdone but good. In his next book I'd like to read more about the "system" we so often feel and so seldom really...
...Petersen spent nights studying yachting manuals and reference books. Other newsmen picked the brain of Yachting magazine's Managing Editor Bill Taylor, who won a Pulitzer Prize for covering the event in 1934. Moaned Taylor: "The same questions from the same guys, over and over.'' The landlubbers also got help from amateur newsmen who had persuaded their home-town editors to send them off to the races because they were salty sailors. Blonde, blue-eyed Betsy Wolfe, 22, sleek as a twelve-meter yacht, and an old crewing hand, turned out so well for the Schenectady...
...Boning supposedly is the only American technical expert at an Asian arms conference, and he ruins the whole show by giving a hesitant answer to a question about A-bombs that a bright high school student could furnish (the reason he is hesitant is that he is sleepy, having spent most of his nights with a Communist-Chinese cutie...