Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boost of only 6 percent was reported in the ratio of public to private school men admitted. Almost 400 high schools placed 625 men in the Class of '58 and 162 private schools accounted for the other 537 freshmen, a percentage breakdown...
...order to obtain a freshman class of 1,162, a total of 1,874 applicants had to be admitted to the College last spring, it was announced yesterday. The figures were released as part of the statistical breakdown of the Class...
...last major breakdown occurred last spring when water from a puddle in back of the laboratory leaked into the building and caused a short circuit in the cyclotron's magnetic coils. The machine was out of use for six weeks while the puddle water was drying...
This last breakdown was especially inopportune since it delayed the thesis work of three graduating seniors for more than a month...
...Naval Office of Research which finances the cyclotron project at the University, seemed unconcerned about the temporary breakdown, and Navy official Lt. Cmdr. P. G. Conwell told Preston that the Navy Department was sorry it happened. The cost of the repair will come out of the Laboratory's $25,000 monthly budget...