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Word: zizzamia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Abbotts &Zizzamias. Today's students run the gamut from A (Abbott, Adams, Atwater, Atwood) to Z (Zalecki, Zapata. Zen, Zezza, Zizzamia). The 1.278 freshmen represent 526 different schools, more than half of them public high schools, and four out of every ten students get financial aid. It is quite possible, says Classicist John Finley, to have in one house "the grandson of one of the greatest modern novelists [James Joyce], the grandson of one of the greatest modern painters [Henri Matisse], and the great, "great, great, great, and ad infinitum grandson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Unconquered Frontier | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

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