Word: timed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reported that Russian will be included in C.E.E.B.'s achievement tests. Russian is now being taught by 96 member colleges, as well as 400 U.S. secondary schools. ¶ Admitted 50 secondary schools (and 37 more colleges) to C.E.E.B. membership for the first time. Reason: with more curriculums based on college tests, the schools want a voice in running C.E.E.B. ¶ Heard a prediction from C.E.E.B. President Frank Bowles that the average U.S. college within 25 years will boost requirements by one full year-applying the same standards to incoming freshmen as it does now to sophomores...
...before it went into rehearsal. All it needs now, as Author Axelrod sees it, is a new finish. Boasting the most improbable plot since the satyrical heyday of Thorne Smith, Charlie tells the story of a $3,000-a-week Hollywood writer (Charlie Sorell) who spent most of his time in bed with other men's wives and is brought back after death-in the body of Lauren Bacall. "In some sort of jazzy, Old Testament way," says his best friend (Sydney Chaplin), "you're being punished." The show had one ending when it opened in Pittsburgh, another...
...songs that echoed through West Point's stern, grey buildings. At the Air Force Academy 2,000 miles away in Colorado Springs, the cadets whipped themselves up to such a pitch that they swarmed onto the practice field to shout encouragement at their startled team. For the first time, the new U.S. Air Force Academy was playing the U.S. Military Academy, and right from the start both schools were determined to make the series as memorable as Army-Navy...
...Southern California (6-0)-rolled for 21 first downs v. California's 8, but needed a key block by Guard Mike McKeever (TIME...
...Texas (7-0)-contained the passes of Quarterback Don Meredith (TIME, Nov. 2), beat Southern Methodist...