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Word: persons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...underthings. At the act's end, when Figaro mockingly congratulates Cherubino on his future military career, he punctuates the aria Non più andrai with a solid boot to the rump. But Ritchard's worst sin, according to the purist critics, was turning the Countess from a person of "breeding and dignity" into a delightfully sprightly lady with an occasionally roving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fight over Figaro | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...have advanced from passive listening to active mimicry by having students repeat what they hear from the master voice," Edward Geary, assistant professor of Romance Languages, comments. He points out the "autocritical" function: If a person makes an egregious mispronunciation, he then hears it when he replays the tape. This method, carried on in the privacy of individual booths, also avoids embarrassment for students about their blunders," Geary states, in addition to hammering in corrent pronunciations...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: A 'New' Home for Modern Language Instruction | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

...four women--stayed in groups of two at the Business School, Divinity School, Adams House, Kirkland House, Bertram Hall, and Comstock Hall during their stay, and after the first night two or more of them would be taken out to dinner or invited to a home by a different person each night...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman g, | Title: Soviets in Cambridge | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

...impact of a college upon its students, says Stanley H. King, associate director of research at the Health Services, "has never received the full study it deserves." "We are not interested in the abnormal person, but in the average college student, and in the changes he undergoes during four years...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Health Service Study Will Measure Psychological Effect of College Life | 11/4/1959 | See Source »

...easy to lose a person in a welter of data," Dr. Bidwell notes, "but our main concern is for the individual." Students cannot be categorized into single groups, he feels, and thus the project definitely has a slant toward individuality. Although no final results can be expected for a few years, the new Unit B may soon produce some significant insights into the inter-relation of the individual and the College...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Health Service Study Will Measure Psychological Effect of College Life | 11/4/1959 | See Source »

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