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Word: untill (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nearly all of Sweden's 3,359 doctors take part. A law already passed, but not effective until 1951, will make health insurance compulsory. Norway has had health insurance since 1909, compulsory for all earning less than 9,000 kroner ($1,800) yearly and voluntary for those earning more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Health Insurance Catalogue | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Last week for nearly five hours the House of Commons debated the pros & cons of his bill to make simplified spelling compulsory in all British schools, films and copyrighted literature. No foreigner, the bill provided, would be naturalized until he had mastered the new spelling. "Fourteen million schoolchildren," pleaded Dr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Ghoti Today | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Shocked, Dean Robert W. Kenny last week suspended all fraternity social activities until further notice. Non-fraternity men, who outnumber the Greeks two to one, held a mass meeting, raised the question of whether Brown should have fraternities at all.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Case at Brown | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

¶ Dr. Willard C. Rappleye, dean of the faculty of medicine, able and genial boss of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons for the past 18 years, to become vice president in charge of medical affairs. ¶ Paul H. Davis, general secretary of Stanford University, until he took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Quadrumvirate | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Nantucket has always been a pretty good place to find sea shells; up to 1945 professional scientists had counted 46 different species of Mollusca on the island and in its waters. That was about the time Dwight Taylor of Pasadena, now a bright-eyed, serious 17-year-old, began his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Top of the Crop | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

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