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Word: willingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Big Provision. The U.S. plan was apparently the basic plan that would be put up to the Kremlin at the May 11 conference. Its outline, subject to some reshaping at another Big Four meeting in Paris at month's end: 1) the West would offer such "military concessions" as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Meeting in Room 5106 | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

New York City's difficult situation is further complicated by the fact that none of the services it provides (particularly the schools) are as good or as extensive as the civil servants who run them would like them to be. The fact is that the City (like the State and...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: The Bulging Budget | 4/11/1959 | See Source »

Agreeing with Nash, Dean von Stade said it would be a "great mistake" to try to prevent Freshmen from switching out of science. Pointing out that concentration in science requires many labs and numerous course prerequisites, von Stade said that only those "willing to make the necessary sacrifices" should continue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CEP Subcommittee Plans to Study Causes for Drop-Outs From Sciences | 4/10/1959 | See Source »

Many Cliffies express the desire for equality, however, in a less erudite manner. Often members of any Harvard class spend time aiding their poor damsels in the struggle through the academic sloughs. "And then the ungrateful curse reward us good Samaritans by raising the curve and getting better grades than...

Author: By Pauline A. Rubbelke and Claude E. Welch jr., S | Title: Sexes Battle for Academic Superiority | 4/9/1959 | See Source »

But the myth runs equally well in the opposite direction. Well known at Radcliffe is the song about the poor girl who wrote a thesis for some boy each year for three years, only to be "dropped" as soon as her typewriter-weary fingers turned over the black-covered masterpieces...

Author: By Pauline A. Rubbelke and Claude E. Welch jr., S | Title: Sexes Battle for Academic Superiority | 4/9/1959 | See Source »

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