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Word: skips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...answer, which this week became published policy, was broad and sweeping. Unlike the big Rockefeller Foundation ($123 million) and Carnegie Corp. of New York ($173 million), the Fords would skip specific scientific, medical and public-health projects. Instead, they would try to find new designs for human relationships which would match the assembly-line achievements of the machine age. One suggested field of endeavor, described in a prime sample of sociological gobbledygook: "The mitigation of tensions which now threaten world peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHILANTHROPY: Faith & Charity | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

...Eliot House sophomore mounted the Holyoke House stairs at 9 a.m. yesterday to have his adviser sign his study card. All went well until the adviser--a new man, who will be identified herein merely as Shultz--questioned the sophomore's desire to skip the first half of a course and start immediately with the second portion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Attempts to Split a Course, Will Get It in End, Not Middle | 9/28/1950 | See Source »

Lawyer Theo seemed to have a bare majority on his side. The jury's vote: 7 to 6 in favor of Socrates. On whether Socrates was right in refusing to skip town, no vote was taken. Quipped Moderator Hagerty: "The purpose here is not to free someone, but to free your minds." Added Hagerty: "A beautiful discussion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: San Quentin v. Socrates | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...coaching shifts at other colleges, Cleo O'Donnell, captain of the 1946 football team, goes to M.I.T. as varsity basketball coach, and James Rathschmidt, Princeton freshman crew coach since 1946, takes over at Yale for Allen (Skip) Walz, who resigned to enter private industry. Peter V. W. Gardner, 1949 Tiger varsity captain, will replace Rathschmidt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Freshman Coaches Named | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...Shtin's average speed for the second heat: 100.68 m.p.h. Old record: 94.285 m.p.h., set last year by Stanley Dollar's Skip-a-Long. Jubilant Auto Dealer Sayres was delighted over his boat's performance, but he was already taking a look ahead. Said Sayres: "We have a faster boat on the drafting board now . . . 200 m.p.h. is not impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Faster & Faster | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

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