Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toepfer predicted, however, that the President's action will probably account in part for an increase in the number of applicants to the Law School in 1955 and 1956. Students, who in the past would have joined the army before entering graduate study will now be more inclined to go immediately into Law School after graduating from college, he said...
Sagitarius. New England legislators will call an end to daylight saving time when cows stop giving milk on account of darkness. Billy Graham will ask, in a press interview, "What's the Harvard Divinity School?" reducing considerably the odds on him as the new dean. A U.S. plane will be shot down...
Treatment, Dr. Bierman insists, must take into account not only the apparent overproduction of white cells, but the whole cycle of production, delivery, removal and destruction. White cells normally live only two to four days. But in some leukemia victims, he has found, the cells may live as long as 100 days. This, in what Bierman calls his "balance hypothesis," means principally that removal and destruction are slowing down somewhere. The phenomenon of overproduction of the white cells may often be an illusion (some normal people manufacture many more white cells than leukemics without suffering ill effects...
...spectra he found the "red shift,"- which shows that they are all moving away from the earth and from one another. The most distant ones observed are apparently rushing away at 134 million miles an hour, about one-fifth of the speed of light. Unless some new theory can account for the red shift, cosmologists will have to get along with the expanding universe...
...Henderson Ramsey of Britain's University of Manchester. The simplest example is Jupiter, which Ramsey thinks is made largely of hydrogen. Near the surface where pressure is low, the hydrogen is in gaseous form. Deeper down it turns into a nonmetallic solid. It is still too light to account for the density of Jupiter's interior...