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Word: droppings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commenting on the problem, Leonard K. Nash, associate professor of chemistry, said, "I do not see any panacea. However, I am not sure the situation is serious because most of the people who drop out are not suited to be scientists anyway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CEP Subcommittee Plans to Study Causes for Drop-Outs From Sciences | 4/10/1959 | See Source »

Ford stated that his committee would consider the drop-off of science concentrators "in connection with other problems rather than specifically by itself." Another committee member, Alwin M. Pappenheimer, Jr., professor of Biology, added that it was very important for the group to investigate the scientific background of the average applicant in order to determine "where science fits into a liberal education today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CEP Subcommittee Plans to Study Causes for Drop-Outs From Sciences | 4/10/1959 | See Source »

...Department of Germanic Languages will offer Junior tutorial for credit for the first time next year also as a result of the CEP action. The Department plans to drop German R from the curriculum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Concentrators In Slavic Will Take Half-Hour Orals | 4/8/1959 | See Source »

...brings his own firearms, a hunter may be able to get away with 30 days in the bush for $4,000. With photographic safaris pushing into the wilds, most Nairobi white hunters are now as expert with cameras as with rifles. Their main task is to stand ready to drop the beast if it should charge while the client is snapping a closeup. Says one hunter: "Frankly, we get a trifle bored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bwana Brummel | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...most of his colleagues would rather walk than ride with him), rolls up his shirtsleeves for the day's work. American Motors headquarters is perhaps the most relaxed and informal in Detroit's auto industry. Romney often leaves his modest office (18 ft. by 18 ft.) to drop in on executives down the corridor. When he has anything important to say, he is not above calling them together, sitting down on the back of a chair to give a talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Dinosaur Hunter | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

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