Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...living." To this end, the Commission urges the following main aims and innovations: free education through the first two college years and a doubling of present college enrollments by 1960; inexpensive and non-discriminatory graduate education with emphasis laid upon tripling teachers, doctors, dentists, and nurses in training within ten years; provision of "general education" to develop "civic conscience" and furnish a "common cultural heritage;" and the elimination of all racial and religious barriers to equality of higher education, particularly as they affect Negro citizens...
Henry S. Dyer '27, Director of the Office of Tests, commented last night that the examination was not intended to analyze any individual student, but merely to establish a norm with which future results can be compared. He glowed with enthusiasm as he described the ten-year program the Office was conducting on the basis of these and other tests...
...Master Breeder. By evening he is usually back in his ranch house at the Santa Gertrudis Ranch, the headquarters of the four divisions that make up the King Ranch. His house is no palace. Compared to the luxury of the swimming pool, the ten-car garage and the $350,000 towered and turreted main house of the Santa Gertrudis hacienda, the Kleberg's home is tiny (seven rooms). For privacy's sake they prefer it to the enormous main house, which they use as a guest house...
When the Widow King died in 1925, at 92, her complex will put the ranch in a trust for ten years. With Bob Kleberg the First ailing (he died seven years after the Widow King), the trustees chose his son and namesake to run the ranch...
...hated to leave the ranch, even to go to high school, and then for two years to the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture. In 1916 he came home for good to help run the ranch. Ten years later, after a whirlwind 17-day courtship, he married pretty Washington-reared Helen Campbell, daughter of longtime Republican Congressman Philip Pitt Campbell of Kansas...