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Word: unesco (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college students who took the draft deferment test last spring, 37% flunked, will be liable for service whenever their draft boards want them. ¶ After studying the compulsory education laws of 48 nations, UNESCO announced that British and Tasmanian children are required to spend more time in school (ten years) than any others. Next: U.S. children, who in most states spend nine. Last in line: Indonesian children, who don't have to go to school at all. ¶ The University of North Carolina, overwhelmed with protests, changed its mind about exiling its Negro graduate students to end-zone seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...UNESCO's jobs is to keep track of the books that get translated from one language to another. The latest UNESCO sum-up, for 1949, shows which U.S. authors of all time were doing the biggest translation business around the world that year. The leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For Better or Worse | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

Department, of Natural Sciences, UNESCO Paris, France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 23, 1951 | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

Married. Cinemactress Myrna Loy, 45, "perfect wife" of the movies (The Thin Man, Cheaper by the Dozen); and Howland H. Sargeant, 39, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, who last year headed the United States' UNESCO delegation to which she was an adviser; she for the fourth time, he for the second; at Fort Myer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 11, 1951 | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

...UNESCO Committee on Monuments, Historical and Archaeological sites has chosen John O. Brew, Peabody Professor of American Archaeology, as its Vice-Chairman. Brew, who is also director of the Peabody Museum, was elected at the recent week-long meeting of the committee in Paris...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U. N. Group Picks Brew as Official | 6/9/1951 | See Source »

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