Word: term
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...streets teem with Russian soldiers. Dairen Chinese are now forbidden to use the old Chinese term mao-tse (literally: hairy one) when referring to Russians; Russians must be called lao-ta (literally: elder brother...
Guthman hustled out of the city room with a long-term assignment: to find the truth about Melvin Rader, professor of philosophy at the University of Washington. Before the state legislature's Committee on Un-American Activities in July 1948, Melvin Rader had been labeled a Communist. His accuser, ex-Communist George Hewitt, charged that Rader had attended a secret party school near Kingston, N.Y. for six weeks in the summer of 1938. Rader's reply was a detailed denial: he was not a Communist, and he had spent the summer of 1938 in Seattle and at Canyon...
Some Colleges, like Stanford or Virginia, are rah-rah and nothing else. Princeton isn't; Nassau men take their studies seriously and work hard on them, probably harder than Harvard students. Freshmen and sophomores carry five courses a term, and every senior (except engineers) must write a thesis-often 60,000 words minimum...
...despite the fact Princeton men are eating an ersatz Howard Johnson's at Commons, they generally fare better than their Harvard brethren. For fifty cents less per term, the Tigers eat family style off plastic plates, not navy trays. The food is rushed out directly from the kitchen, and is usually at least at room temperature...
...about the same volume of gifts as it did the year before, but in the face of the uncertain economic future, the University discovered an increasing reluctance among its donors to sign pledges for future gifts. As a result, many of last year's gifts were of but one term's duration...