Word: bumper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resulting drive for grades have come since then. Although Lamont still suffices adequately for most of the year, at exam periods it fails to provide all the needed study space and time. And in the immediate future the University must make some preparation for the soon to arrive bumper crop of war-baby students...
...were 20 years ago. Americans (aged 5 to 34) enrolled in school number 32,796,000 (up more than 3,000,000 in three years), of whom 3,515,000 are six-year-olds (up one million in three years, reflecting the attainment of school age by the postwar bumper baby crop...
...town begins to sprout posters, street banners, window cards and bumper stickers announcing the impending crusade. Typical of the Graham team's meticulous know-how is the way its members tackled the matter of bumper stickers. First they tested the different methods of attaching a sign to a bumper-string, elastic, clips, hooks, adhesive. Having decided adhesive was most lasting, they began testing surfaces, determined on a kind called "Dayglo" which shines in sunlight or headlight. Dayglo comes in single, double and triple screen, hence more testing and the decision to use double. To find the best adhesive, lots...
...Like bumper cars at an amusement park, 700-odd pre-medical students needlessly knock each other out every year. Uncertain of medical requirements, they compete intensely in upper-level science courses, to be sure they qualify. The College administration has shown its tacit disapproval of such over-concentration by not setting up a special pre-medical field. But it has never adequately advised pre-meds of scientific requirements, or the advantages of a liberal arts background, and as a result, the pointless duplication of medical school courses in the College has continued...
...record ratio" of one doctor for every 730 inhabitants of the U.S. was claimed by the A.M.A. as a bumper crop of 6,861 medical-school graduates raised the total of physicians to 220,100. But fewer than half of these were in private general practice, and the number of patients for each full-time G.P. is 1,968-virtually unchanged since...