Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pleading not guilty to a charge of disturbing a public assembly, four members of the Freshman class will be tried today at nine o'clock in the East Cambridge Court. To avoid political implications, postponement until after elections will be sought by the counsel for the Yardlings...
...marine intelligence. Second unit of a new Holland-America fleet,* she enjoyed the distinction of being the only transatlantic ship ever built with a private bath in every passenger cabin. A neat combination of freighter and passenger ship, her high-set midship superstructure is calculated to provide first-class passenger comfort at tourist rates ($253 round trip), while her low-slung fore & aft cargo decks make money on freight. The Noordam cost $2,300,000, can carry 9,000 tons of cargo, 120 passengers...
...week, chattering like magpies and nervously fanning the air with their drivers. Stretched ahead of them were 36 holes of golf, a two-day tournament to determine the best U. S. lady golfer between the ages of 50 and 70. Those with handicaps of 14 or less competed in Class A, those handicapped at 15 to 25 in Class B, from 25 up in Class...
...Illinois by University of Chicago's Professors Ernest Watson Burgess and Leonard S. Cottrell Jr. (TIME, Feb. 7). Last week a far more searching study* was completed by Stanford University's famed Psychologist Lewis Madison Terman (intelligence tests). Professor Terman and his staff examined 792 middle-class couples (average income: $2,450) in California. He asked them hundreds of questions, took elaborate precautions to preserve their anonymity so they would answer truthfully. Biggest news in his report is a finding that satisfactory sexual mating is not the prime requirement for marital happiness. Highlights...
Professor Terman admits that his findings are merely straws in the wind, by no means conclusive. Much of his evidence is colored by his subjects' feelings and reticence. Moreover, he points out that findings might differ in other States than California, other groups than the middle class. But he holds that his test for predicting marital happiness has this much reliability: if an individual scores in the top quarter on the test, the chances are four out of five that his marriage will be average or above average in happiness...