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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CONGRATULATIONS FOR A THOROUGH STORY ON DR. LOUIS FINKELSTEIN, A GOOD SPOKESMAN AND LEADER FOR CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 5, 1951 | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...another forthcoming Council report, David L. Stark '53 will try to give a "thorough evaluation of the several methods the university uses to obtain funds from students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Report Dubs Undergraduate Advising Failure as Few Respond | 10/30/1951 | See Source »

...Rosenbaum does not recommend junking the electrocardiograph. He insists that its evidence be accepted as only part of the story-along with laboratory tests and thorough physical examination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Machine Is Fallible | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

Three years ago, the University emasculated its geography department, quickly, silently, but not completely. A thorough job was impossible at the time because the Institute of Geographical Exploration, which had strong ties with the abolished department, was privately owned. Last month, however, the persistence of official indifference finally annihilated that, too; Professor Rice, its owner, gave it to the University, which immediately closed down its building and fired its staff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Geography Razed | 10/9/1951 | See Source »

...thorough as a Royal Commission, the BBC went back to the beginning. The first mention of a Loch Ness monster was in the 7th Century account of St. Columba's visit to the province of the Picts. He came to the river Nesa (the Ness) and found that an aquatic monster had just bitten and killed a Pict. So the saint ordered another Pict to dive into the water. The monster rose to take him as a salmon takes a fly, but the saint made the sign of the Cross "and the monster was terrified and fled away more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Monster on Trial | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

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