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Word: rowse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Out of the Gutter. The fighting is sharpest in the streets and in city slums, in small, crowded buildings marked by neon-lighted crosses in the midst of dark Skid Rows. The army regards such positions as its most important beachheads in the Devil's territory. Captains Olive McKeown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Was a Stranger ... | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

At first blush, it was hard to believe that there could be much wrong with life in Richland, Wash., the Atomic Energy Commission's model residential city for the big Hanford Plutonium Works. Its 24,000 residents seemed to live in an atomic-age Utopia. With no effort from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Model City | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

The spring before last the Dramatic Club decided that Cambridge theaters were not satisfactory and hired the Plymouth Theater in Boston for its production. Because the HDC failed to draw a large enough audience, to fill up even a few rows of the theater, it soon found itself thousands of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: III: Sticks and Stones | 12/8/1949 | See Source »

Only after lengthy deliberation could the Administration have removed the history-covered tables in Sever Hall. Yet, in making this considered move, no one suggested that the tradition of which the tables were a part needed alteration. Like the old, the new arrangement of individual desk-chairs puts a premium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seats of Learning | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

Rows of seats are preferred over a conference table becauses they accommodate large classes. But the practice of moulding educational techniques to the capacity of available class rooms is hardly worthy of America's wealthiest University. Professors who find undergraduates incapable of benefitting from the conference method fail to understand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seats of Learning | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

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