Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EXCESSIVE SLEEPFULNESS. "There are individuals who are obsessed by sleep, devoting a disproportionate amount of time to it ... One can only speculate as to why sleep is necessary at all, since no one as yet has demonstrated a biochemical or physiological explanation." A side effect of psychic energizers is that most patients find that they need only four or five hours' sleep a night; some have gone this way for a year with no fatigue. Dr. Kline tried iproniazid himself, found he could do two days' work in one. A good question, he said, is "what the world...
...further increase the amount of individual study which the Committee hopes to achieve, the lecture system would be modified to include fewer lectures, increased independent reading and writing assignments, and essays or oral examinations to be substituted for the present three-hour written examinations. This might result, one Faculty member proffered, in more individual conferences and extended Reading Periods. The Committee also recommends an increased use of course reduction and a simplification of the machinery for granting...
Civilian expenditures, such as the President's highway construction plan, will not add more than $4 million--an insignificant amount--to the economy. And as is the case with most public works projects, it will take some time before this money circulates publicly...
Such intelligence is woefully lacking in the current Administration, which has placed an inordinate amount of emphasis on monetary policy planning. Monetary policy, which intrudes silently into the economy, is the favored child of an Administration with an almost instinctive tendency to label as evil anything smacking of direct government intervention into economic management...
...broken sprinkler system caused a slight amount of damage and a considerable amount of excitement in the Coop yesterday morning...