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Word: taking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Education Committee has voted to break the ten-year-old rule that every Freshman must take General Education Ahf, and permit students to fulfill the composition requirement by work done in Freshman seminars...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: Freshmen May Replace Gen Ed A with Seminars | 10/23/1959 | See Source »

...dauntless people'--Churchill used James and probably didn't realize he was quoting him. And James touched his time at so many points. George Moore writes, 'James went to Paris and met Turgenev, William Dean Howells stayed at home and read James.' It is marvelous that an American could take his seat at the European table of fiction so early in our history...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: Biographer and Critic | 10/22/1959 | See Source »

...James was concerned (at a time when Americans weren't) about what place Americans should take in the civilized world. It's curious that at that time people should have thought he was highly critical of Americans. Actually, Americans carry off the moral victories in his novels...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: Biographer and Critic | 10/22/1959 | See Source »

Steve Sebo's high-flying Quakers will face a strong Navy eleven in a toss-up at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. At New Haven, the Yalies, biggest surprise in the League, play host to winless Colgate. Yale is a definite favorite to take its fifth win of the year and may even hold Colgate scoreless...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Harvard Favored Over Indians; Tigers Expected to Top Cornell | 10/22/1959 | See Source »

...Midnight Special and Can't Stop Me Now Because I'm Climbing On Top of the Hill, during which Terry, a man with a rhythmic soul, seemed to be singing and playing his harmonica at the same time. Sticking to the tried and true, they followed with John Henry, Take This Hammer and Poor Howard's Dead and Gone, an old Leadbelly song which Terry recorded at the memorable Carnegie Hall Christmas concert with Pete Seeger...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Terry, McGee and Lomax | 10/20/1959 | See Source »

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