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Word: versa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Four delegations each of college professors to study the other's educational system; up to 20 students from Moscow and Leningrad universities to attend U.S. universities for a year, and vice versa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Big Swap | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

Life has treated Hartack at least as well as vice versa, and his only vocal complaint is that a lot of people, including sportswriters, call him Willie, a name he detests; he prefers Bill, and the girls all call him Bill. His followers have a complaint as well. Too many people stake their cash on his talent, so the odds on a Hartack-ridden horse almost always take a dive before the field gets into the starting gate. This even Hartack deplores. "Every time I ride a horse that's a legitimate 4-toi shot," says he without unseemly modesty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bully & the Beasts | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...spending for fiscal 1959. The direction: up. The big item: $39 billion to $40 billion for defense, a $2 billion or so increase from fiscal 1958. Last week the Administration also telegraphed its overall policy for fiscal 1959: defense needs will shape the size of the budget, not vice versa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BUDGET: Priority: Defense | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...that's not it; I am a student; but I live the nights like other people do the days, and vice versa...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: The Horses of the Night | 11/30/1957 | See Source »

...Vice versa. You see, I've found the answer: the dorms are amplifying systems during the day; you can't walk through a library without some hornrimmed creature goggling from between the pages of a mouldy scrapbook at you; and this Square is palsy in motion; this place makes my flesh crawl right off my bones during...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: The Horses of the Night | 11/30/1957 | See Source »

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