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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Futures in educational work will be discussed at 8 p.m. tonight in the Leverett House dining hall in the second career conference of the week. Religious vocations were the subject of an earlier meeting Tuesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Experts Discuss Jobs In Education Tonight | 3/17/1949 | See Source »

Tonight's symposium will deal in particular with the question, "Is the Novel Dying?" Harry T. Levine '33, professor of English, will lead off the discussion with a general survey of the subject, and divide the topic into three geographical areas. C. M. Bowra, Wardon of Wadham College, Oxford, will speak on the English novel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Discussion Tonight May Set Off Eliot Symposium Series | 3/15/1949 | See Source »

...World Affairs (Sun. 2 p.m., NBC). First of an eight-week series. Subject: the North Atlantic pact. Speakers include Philip C. Jessup, U.S. ambassador-at-large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...rocket expert of Caltech, has developed such an engine for the U.S. Navy, which presumably hopes to use it in torpedoes or in anti-submarine devices. The Navy is so excited about it that it won't allow Swiss-born Astronomer Zwicky to open his mouth on the subject. It has also warned Aerojet Engineering Corp. of Azusa, Calif., which is working on the device, to keep it quiet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Underwater Jet | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...South, double muscadine was a bedspread design, named for the leaf of the scuppernong-wine grape. "Rench" was the word for rinse, and "wropping" was the method of braiding pickaninny pigtails. In Mississippi at least, a perjured slave was subject to "have both your ears nailed to the pillory, and cut off, and receive thirty-nine lashes on your bare back, well laid on, at the common whipping post." Then as now, a cockleburr was regarded as a bad thing to get under a saddle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Dash of King's Yellow | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

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