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...larger fields of concentrators, most honors candidates come form the History and Literature department, an all-honors field, and fewest from Biology, English, and Social Relations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Government and Economics Most Populous Majors | 11/26/1948 | See Source »

...teachers begged and scolded, but still the windows got broken. In one year (1946), Chicago's school board paid out $271,897 just to mend windows that the schoolkids smashed. Finally, the exasperated board promised to give $22,000 worth of books to the schools with the fewest broken panes. The plan worked: last year, Chicago's broken schoolhouse panes dropped from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Experiment in Glass | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...written. The part of TIME which never appears in print is itself a distillation of scores of stories offered, examined, weighed, and found wanting-for any one of a number of reasons. Obviously, since TIME is designed to give its readers the significant news of the week in the fewest possible reading hours, there is a limit to the amount of words readers can be expected to read.* Believed to be dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 3, 1947 | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...becoming less intelligent, reported London Psychologist Sir Cyril Burt. It is an old story, said Sir Cyril, that the intelligent well-to-do have fewer children than the poor. The real hitch: "Among the far more (numerous working classes it is still the most intelligent families who contribute fewest to the next generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Who Said Progress? | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...Lionel advertising manager Joseph E. Hanson made a shrewd deal with Liberty. With the fewest ads of any magazine in its class, Liberty had plenty of paper and its rates were low enough to fit Lionel's budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: The Price of Liberty | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

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