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Word: veteran (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than a temporarily paralyzing effect. It produced the veteran's attitude of "to hell with everything but a degree." And it produced the more permanent prospect of 1,000 additional undergraduates. The veterans had no time to meet and discuss with other students and tutors. Tutorial, abolished during the war, could not withstand post-war indifference and crowding, and gave way to an advisory system. In view of Lowell's motives in founding the Houses, the move in retrospect seems almost unaccountable...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: Houses: Seven Dwarfs By The Charles? | 4/1/1954 | See Source »

...year veteran, Cooledge was right wing on the high scoring second line and third highest individual scorer on the squad. Skating with Doug Manchester and sophomore Joe Crehore, Cooledge scored 12 goals to place second on the team in total goals scored during the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scott Cooledge to Captain Varsity Hockey Next Year | 3/31/1954 | See Source »

...Francisco is a town where the symphony is taken as seriously as the ship loadings. So when veteran Conductor Pierre Monteux retired two years ago, the symphony board took pains to let subscribers have a part in picking his successor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: San Francisco's Decision | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...Louis Post-Dispatch's veteran Federal Building reporter, Ray A. (for Archibald) Webster once took aggressive pity on an underpaid reporter from an opposition paper. "Listen, you," Webster gruffly told him, "the Star is going to have to raise you to $50 a week or I'll scoop you every day-and you tell your managing editor that." The Starman meekly passed on the warning and was speedily raised to $50 a week to keep Webster from carrying out his threat. There was no doubt that he could carry it out. For most of the 40 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Man on the Beat | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

Born. To Dorothy Kilgallen, 40, veteran Hearst gossipist and TV panelist (What's My Line), and former Broadway Actor Richard Kollmar, 43, her radio breakfast-program partner (Dorothy and Dick): their third child, second son; in Manhattan. Name: Kerry Ardan. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 29, 1954 | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

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