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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...head his own twelve-piece band in 1940, Monroe gave up his concert ambitions, trained with a vocal coach for four months to tone his big voice down to dance-hall size. At the same time he mapped out his strategy for winning the public. One important campaign detail: constant caravaning through the hinterlands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: What Was Called For | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...education? Hutchins' answer was simple: there is a kind of knowledge that transcends time & place; there are absolute values such as Truth and Justice, and they can be found by modern man, especially by studying what the great minds of the past had to say about the constant problems of mankind. The purpose of education, he held, is to train minds to be free, not chaotic, and free "because they can understand the order of goods and can achieve them in that order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Worst Kind of Troublemaker | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Educational advances and experiments during his administration have been distinguished by constant liberalization and widening of the undergraduate's potential field of study...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: Yale Hunts Successor to Retiring President; Tafts Being Considered | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

...against the jayvees, with tailbacks Jim Noonan, Charlie Rocho, and Carroll Lowenstein doing most of the pitching, and sent its runing game against dummies. Nick Athans alternated with Mofile at wingback in the first string backfield, which also included Henry, Noonan or Roche, and fullback Johnny West. In the constant shifting of backfield personnel, Lowenstein also worked some with the number one unit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kenary May Play Against Bulldogs | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

...under a Nobel prize winner at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. Government is her main interest and she finds Littauer "intellectually stimulating." Following up her class work she has interviewed Boston mayorality candidates and investigated the Cambridge city-manager government; with possible recall to her council chair a constant threat she is jamming her time with activities...

Author: By Mary CHANNING Stokes, | Title: German Woman Official at Harvard | 11/8/1949 | See Source »

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