Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...series of monographs discussing topics in physics not covered in formal classroom work will be published this fall. Phillippe E. LeCorbeiller, professor of Applied Physics, described the purpose of these monographs as an attempt to "have the most competent people write on a scientific subject in a way that could interest educated people who do not have a formal background in science" in addition to interested students in the course...
...possible to write on a hypersensitive skin with a fingernail. Like 'most mothers, I became resigned early to being less than nothing to my children. Thanks to your article, I'm now a heroine. We've been holding demonstrations until every exposed part of my anatomy is covered with the mark of Zorro, hearts, and initials from most of the neighborhood children. Any mother can raise biscuits, but how many can raise welts on demand? Perhaps you could find a use for this talent? If I were still in school I'd make a terrific walking...
...sense, he was born in the right place and with the right ancestry to favor a big role. Though Africa was, until the Europeans came, the continent that could not write, it had known its times of glory. Guinea was once part of the powerful Mali Empire that stretched from the French Sudan, on the upper reaches of the Niger, to just short of West Africa's Atlantic Coast. When its 14th century ruler, the Mansa (Sultan) Musa, made his pilgrimage to Mecca, he traveled with a caravan of 60,000 men, and among his camels were 80 that...
...some ways very good indeed. More strident cries rise from home-based critics, who demand that the U.S. get into the education race without delay. A more thoughtful reporting job is offered in The Big Red Schoolhouse (Doubleday; $3.95), a new book by Fred M. Hechinger, who helped write the Rockefeller report on U.S. education, The Pursuit of Excellence (TIME, July...
Died. Meyer Berger, 60, topflight U.S. reporter, rewriteman, columnist ("About New York") for the New York Times, his paper's choice to write major stories from the conviction of Al Capone to the sinking of the Andrea Doria, winner of a Pulitzer Prize (1950); after a stroke; in Manhattan...