Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jersey's teeming (pop. 700,000) Hudson County, where annual county and city elections are among the liveliest in the U.S., newsmen who are willing to turn out speeches and publicity for political candidates have long found a rewarding short-term market for their talents. Reporters on Sam Newhouse's Jersey Journal (circ. 98,565) have enjoyed a virtual monopoly as political pressagents. The opposition Hudson Dispatch, the county's only other comparable pool of literary talent, has traditionally barred its employees from participating in political campaigns, while the Journal's policy has been to grant...
...Hasidic term for leader, stemming from the Hebrew rabbi, meaning teacher. *An esoteric system of speculation on metaphysics which went in for much symbolical manipulation of words and names. The cabala originated in Palestine but came under strong Babylonian influence between 500 and 900 A.D. Its best-known work, the Zohar, compiled in the 13th century, had a profound influence on Hasidism...
Since then he has spent his mornings studying and attending classes, this term began practice-teaching at Edwin Markham. He went to college last summer, for two years worked weekends at a service station to help meet his new expenses. But by 2 p.m. each weekday, he was once again in his khaki shirt and pants, sweeping, cleaning and polishing as if he had nothing more on his mind than being the best janitor Edwin Markham ever...
...Beginning in the fall of 1958, Dartmouth College will switch from two
16-week semesters to three eleven-week terms. Instead of taking five
courses at a time and thus scattering their attention five different
ways, students will be able to dig deeper into each subject by
concentrating on only three.
...facultymen, including experts in English, French and Italian. Behind, a crowd of students waited eagerly to see her perform. They had good reason for wanting to do so: of 750 students at the Interpreters' School, Giovanna Cuirlo of Genoa was the only one found qualified this term to try for the school's highest prize-the conference (or parliamentary) interpreter's certificate...