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Word: alma (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...plot of this movie is focused on a "typical" college alumnus who returns to his alma mater to reminisce about the "joys and values" of R.O.T.C. training...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: R. O. T. C. Uses Cornell Campus As Setting For Movie Film Saga | 11/29/1950 | See Source »

...University of Minnesota, where taciturn Bernard W. ("Bernie") Bierman, 59, had coached his alma mater's football team for 14 years, winning six Western Conference titles along the way, the situation was strained. With six losses and a tie, Minnesota was having its worst season in memory. One day last week Bernie tossed in the towel. Said he, in a characteristically formal Bierman statement: "I have requested that I be relieved of the football coaching duties at the end of the year." Minnesota's fangless Gophers were sorry to see Bernie go. At week's end they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Out & In | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...Yale Administration listened, and so did Edward S. Harkness the Standard Oil millionaire. Harkness, who had financed Harvard's House system mainly to show Yale how to combat impersonalism in a large university, was even more generous with his alma mater. Yale was able to build 10 Colleges as against the seven Houses that Harvard had put up along the Charles for a larger student body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eli Colleges Outclass Houses as Social Centers | 11/25/1950 | See Source »

...will sing folk and college songs and a group of English glees and madrigals. The Crimson program includes choruses from Cimarosa's opera, "if Matrimonio Segreto," and a portion of Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex." Both groups will jointly sing the finale choruses from "The Beggar's Opera" and the alma maters of each school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Clubs Concert | 11/24/1950 | See Source »

Last week Nehru himself took his old alma mater off the hook. Through the Indian high commissioner in London, he informed his Cantab, backers that he wished his name withdrawn. Without further ado, Lord Tedder's election went through. Airman Tedder got the word from his office in Washington, where he is chairman of the British Joint Services Mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Airman & Scholar | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

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