Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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University officials have refused a request by Donald C. McKay, professor of History, which would allow students in his courses an extra 15 minutes to think over final exam questions before beginning to write their answers...
Nearly thirty groups sent representatives to Putney. Students from Minnesota's SPAN (Student Project for Amity among Nations) told of studying a special problem, like the refugee situation, in either India or Turkey, and then returning to their university to write a thesis and receive credit. A young farmer from Ohio described living with an Indian farm family for two months under the International Farm Youth Exchange. A Stanford student explained a program of "reverse exchange" by which foreign students take up undergraduate programs here and live in college derms...
...that many a staffer had invested in Fox's Keta Gas & Oil Corp. In the last year the stock has dropped from 15 to 3½. Even Fox himself shows signs of depression about his first erratic excursion into journalism. Last week he announced he will no longer write his daily financial column (signed "Washington Waters"). But the real depths of his troubles were spread in the record last week at a Federal Communications Commission hearing in Washington...
...Dallas Morning News, is a police reporter who still affects the once-fashionable cynicism of his calling. "I don't want to be anything but a police reporter," says he. "If the thing you're covering can't bleed, you can't write a story about it. Chambers of Commerce and Community Chests don't bleed...
...ROOSEVELT FAMILY OF SAGAMORE HILL, by Hermann Hagedorn, showed Teddy and his family at home leading a life so strenuous that it seems a wonder he ever had a chance to write THE LETTERS OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Vols. VII and VII, edited by Elting E. Morison, brought to an end the vast correspondence of the liveliest writer who ever held the presidency...