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Word: techs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last minute lay-up by Bob Hastings allowed the varsity to squeak by Saturday night with both a 60-59 victory over M.I.T. and coup of the highly unofficial city championship of Cambridge. A noisy crowd of over a thousand watched the tense goings-on at the Tech field house...

Author: By Lee Pollak, | Title: Varsity Basketball Squad Edges M.I.T. 60-59 in Closing Seconds | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

...Grior, the much publicized Negro halfback for the University of Pittsburgh, has earned the respect of North and South alike after his performance in the Sugar Bowl against Georgia Tech on New Year's day. He was repeatedly cheered during the game and received praise from all for his performance, despite his being involved in the penalty against Pitt which set up Tech's only and winning touchdown of the game...

Author: By C. ROOSEVELT Robinson, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 1/5/1956 | See Source »

...believe that most of America was shocked by the attitude of Georgia's Governor Marvin Griffin to the Sugar Bowl game in which a Negro will be on the team opposing Georgia Tech [Dec. 12]. For once the students demonstrated that there is nothing wrong with our youth, that the nation would be better off in their hands than in the hands of some of these peddlers of hate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Prayer for Patience | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

...troop was organized in 1953, after the mother of a 13-year-old retarded boy went to the local Boy Scout office with the suggestion that scouting instruction might give her son and others like him the sense of belonging that they so desperately needed. A group of Texas Tech students who were members of Alpha Phi Omega, the national service fraternity of former Boy Scouts, agreed to take over the instruction of a group of handicapped youngsters. Lucian Thomas, a local jeweler who had been confined to a wheelchair for 16 years, sponsored the troop. The A.P.O. members scheduled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Sense of Belonging | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

...Sellout. The push to find more and better methods of producing more and better products is a major factor in the current demand for engineers. Georgia Tech's placement bureau, which will be sold out of 1956 graduates by May, is already taking orders for the class of 1957. The demand has led to a story of the civil engineer who, tired of using a transit for the state highway department, went to work for a major oil company. Three months later he was back asking for his old job. The new job had been fine, he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: The Scarcities of Plenty | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

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