Word: summered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good research professor in Russia can earn around $36,000 a year, with a number of interesting fringe benefits such as chauffeured limousines, free hospitalization and summer villas. Their income tax is low, too. Furthermore, scientists are more or less the pinup boys of the Soviet Union. Is it any wonder that a Russian high school boy, unlike our own kids, thinks science is a likely profession...
...Summer science centers to provide high school students with both laboratory and research experience were proposed at the annual meeting of the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools yesterday...
...summer science program worked successfully at the Loomis School in Connecticut, in a seven-week course given last summer, Howard E. Norris, science chairman at Loomis, stated. In this center, 24 students worked on research projects, under the direction of scientists or engineers in their particular fields...
...claimed that the Civil Rights Act was "rammed through" Congress by legislators interested in swaying the Negro vote in Northern urban-industrial states. Thurmond delayed the process last summer by filibustering before the Senate for 24 hours...
Financial difficulties are further aggravated by the prevalent lease system. Under this setup, rooms are rented for a full year beginning in September. The student must therefore pay for his apartment even if he does not use it in the summer; this constitutes a serious drain on his resources. Summer sublets almost always entail a loss, since the supply in a college community far exceeds the off-season demand. This enhances the attractiveness of such a location as Revere--a resort area--where a profitable sublease is relatively easy to acquire...