Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conference's Financial Aids manual explains that high school students interested in the plan should have their parents fill out a confidential financial form. The amount they will be expected to pay towards tuition and other expenses is computed from this data. The computation is made at the Big Ten's office in Chicago, and the estimates are sent to whatever member colleges the applicant requests...
...House Appropriations Committee has cut 2 1/2 million dollars out of the President's requests for the Army, Navy and Air Force in the next fiscal year. Eisenhower has asked for restoration of almost half this amount...
...proposal seeks to solve the recruitment problem and to make cheerleading the post of honor it once was. Originally the cheerleaders were all captains of spring or winter sports, and hence commanded a certain amount of prestige. At that time there was even a special cheering section set up to assist their efforts. But through the years, they gradually delegated their posts to other members of the teams, until finally the system degenerated into the present competition...
...Akerfeldt shed some new light. What Akerfeldt's DPP reacts to is a copper-containing enzyme, ceruloplasmin, present in the blood. It had been assumed that there must be more of this enzyme in schizophrenic than in normal blood. Not so, said Akerfeldt: the reaction measures not the amount but the activity of ceruloplasmin, and this activity depends at least to some extent on the presence of a second substance which he has not identified and calls simply "K.2." There seems to be a lot of K2 in schizophrenics' blood...
High Living. In Tel Aviv, Israel, a court acquitted Eliahu Migdal of disturbing the peace with a noisy card game on his open balcony late one night, ruled: "There is no lawful limit on the amount of noise a person may make on his own balcony...