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Word: treating (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effort to treat the student as an individual, Sarah Lawrence has developed its progressive educational policy, a policy that makes it almost unique among woman's colleges. No reported grades, no examinations, no lectures, and no required courses--these are the extremes towards which the policy gravitates. Until very recently, all four extremes were realized...

Author: By John C. Grosz, | Title: Sarah Lawrence: Experiment in Individualism | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

...Trick or Treat. Near Port Huron, Mich., intending to scare off Halloween pumpkin thieves, a farmer erected in his pumpkin patch a sign reading, "Beware! There is one poison pumpkin in this patch," returned to the field to find a new legend, "Now there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...fear of the whiteness of the window in the early twilight. But, even though the color is muted in these scenes, it protrudes everywhere; and the directing seems to feel obligated to follow the color--to feel obligated to keep everything clean and bright, to remain aloof, to treat the pathos as though it were an awkward intrusion which must be made the best...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: The Captain From Koepenick | 10/27/1959 | See Source »

Weaver v. Weaver. In Elko, Nev., arrested for drunkenness, Evan Harvey told the judge: "A friend advised me to treat a spider bite with alcohol and I drank too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 19, 1959 | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...good common sense for him to insist that his profession precludes commitment to the local (institutional) conditions of his own personal--indeed professional--existence. The matter is made worse by the fact that the typically abstract mind is not always capable of local commitments and tends often to treat this defect as if it were a merit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SYMBOLISM OF NDEA | 10/14/1959 | See Source »

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