Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gringo is a term used by some Latin Americans, often in a derogatory sense, for U.S. citizens. About 12,000 live in Cuba...
...somewhat more involved procedure would seem to be unnecessary. With all due respect for the oft-mentioned Harvard tradition, it would probably be better to do away with the office of Class Marshal altogether. At present, the Marshals are merely figureheads of the Senior Class during its spring term in College. The members of the Permanent Class Committee (one from each House) together with the Marshals draw up a Class Constitution which outlines the leadership of the Class after graduation. It is quite possible, and indeed often the case, that the Marshals will never serve in any capacity...
Circuit Court Judge George Wallace, admittedly inviting a jail term for contempt, turned the voter files over to hurriedly called grand juries in Barbour and Bullock counties...
...first candidates for the degree will be admitted in the Fall term at the Medical School or for work in the Departments of Chemistry, Physics, and Biology and the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics...
...World War II battle for Leyte Gulf was the "greatest naval battle of all time," according to Historian Samuel Eliot Morison* and to 16-year-old Bill Frazer the sea fight seemed a fine subject for a U.S. history-class term paper. But the skinny (5 ft. 11 in., 128 lbs.), scholarly San Fernando (Calif.) Senior High School junior was dissatisfied with the research material available-he knew of only about 250 books on the Pacific phase of World War II. So Bill who six years ago bought a set of lead models of Japanese fighting ships with his newspaper...