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Word: alta (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Calling for Fix. In Calgary, Alta., the Herald ran a personal ad: "Rented room on Aug. 18 in East Calgary. Couldn't find way back. Could landlord please phone me at AV 9-9586 and ask for Jake Funk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 21, 1959 | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Sanctuary. In Edmonton, Alta., arrested for causing a disturbance in a family squabble, Mark Wing got a six-month suspended sentence after he pleaded: "Please, I want to spend my life in jail rather than return to my wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 24, 1959 | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

LARRY BEARER Calgary, Alta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 20, 1959 | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...Last week, at 9,000-ft.-high Alta in Utah's Wasatch Mountains, 26 psychologists, educators, industrialists and military men gathered in a National Science Foundation-sponsored meeting to consider creativity. With surprising unanimity, they concluded that 1) success in the scientific age is not simply a matter of intellect; 2) U.S. education is distressingly geared to uncovering the "bright boy" who can dutifully find the one right answer to a problem; 3) schools ignore the rebellious "inner-directed" child who scores low on IQ tests because they bore him; 4) teachers not only make no effort to nurture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Digging the Divergent | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...BLEVISS Edmonton, Alta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 26, 1959 | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

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