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Word: willingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The committee, under the chairmanship of Al Jacobs '61, polled the College last Spring and found that the overwhelming majority of students seldom take advantage of weekday afternoon hours. Over 70 per cent of those polled indicated that they would be willing to give up the privilege of having women...

Author: By Mark H. Alcott, | Title: New Parietal Rules Sought | 10/29/1959 | See Source »

Out of this process of self-enrichment, compounded of many handshakes and conversations, will come Rockefeller's shrewd assessment of his chances, according to his close friends. Like a riverboat gambler, willing to risk all if the odds are right but unwilling to plunge recklessly, in the months ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Rooky's Giant Step | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

The White Highlands are "white" because since 1939 only Kenya's 60,000 Europeans have been allowed to lease farms there-a state of affairs that has constituted a perennial political and psychological affront to the colony's 6,000,000 Africans. The new plan might ease the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Opening the Highlands | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Brazil and the U.S. are historic friends and close partners in trade. But to hear Brazil's xenophobes and leftists tell it, the U.S. is stealing atomic minerals, interfering with the coffee market, sucking out exorbitant profits, monopolizing Brazilian industry (or, on the other hand, refusing to invest in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Answer-Back Man | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

You can get odds that whatever the score, the Harvard Band wins. The New Yorker, usually not given to hyperbole, has called it "the best in the businss." Harvard men are willing to buy that. The Band always wins, and it has been piling up the score for 40 years...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: University Band Celebrates 40th Anniversary | 10/24/1959 | See Source »

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