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...hamsters and let them live for a while at pleasant mountain resorts. The idea was to test the theory that high altitudes have an adverse effect on sexual activity. Even at 14,260 feet, all the rodents multiplied with unimpaired efficiency. This altitude, concluded Moore & Price, does not diminish fertility-for rodents, anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lights & Lesser Animals | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...CRIMSON's 75th Anniversary issue last term; "Nowhere else in the College is the flamboyance of high school prose so thoroughly smashed. . . . A man learns to write. . . . This is what enables editors to pass examinations and stay in College, and the value of the lessor does not always diminish in later years." The competition, which will last for ten weeks, is open to freshmen and first term sophomores...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Vernal Competitions Dawn | 2/25/1948 | See Source »

...that and seeing your staff in print. A man learns to write, if not well, at any rate quickly and simply, and generally with the semblance of authority. This is what enables editors to bass examinations and stay in college, and the value of the lesson does not always diminish in later years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Monro Deplores Narrow Coverage, Omission of Community Interests | 1/30/1948 | See Source »

...response to the recent Wigglesworth petition, contractors ordered excess conversation eliminated and worked out several other plans in an effort to diminish all other noise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vacation's Snow Fails to Disrupt Work on Lamont | 1/7/1948 | See Source »

...Paris, but President Paasikivi knew the Kremlin would not stand for it, and the Finnish delegation stayed home. Despite this, U.S.-Finnish trade has continued to thrive. The Finns hoped that Russia was not preparing to demand heavy imports on top of reparations-a move which would surely diminish (or even abolish) their trade with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: Autumn Cloud | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

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