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Word: follows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief purpose up here is not marking papers," Dyer pointed out. "What we're trying to do at present is to explore individual differences by means of statistical research. We predict the academic rank of each freshman after registration and then follow up his record. Our predictions are usually 78 percent accurate within a certain area...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inhuman Test Corrector Has Perfect Score | 1/29/1949 | See Source »

...prejudice as much as it suffered from lack of tutoring. The management has supplied each ticket-holder with a simplified genelogical chart of the Houses of Lancaster and York, along with a short history of England in Richard's time, but I found the play still hopelessly confusing to follow. This would be of no importance if the play contained enough compensating poetry, but it is a procession of blood and rhetoric, both a little too thick...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Playgoer | 1/19/1949 | See Source »

...series of forums and talks will approach the topic from three geographical groupings: western Europe, the Near East, and the Far East. The opening talk for the two day conference will be a follow-up on E.R.P. by Edward Mason, Dean of Littauer School of Public Administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Voters to Discuss Foreign Affairs at Annex | 1/14/1949 | See Source »

Given a honorary Doctor of Literature degree in 1937, Frost at one time gave the Charles Eliot Norton poetry lectures and is now a Ralph Waldo Emerson Follow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frost Readings Pack Kirkland | 1/12/1949 | See Source »

Dropping bombs from a satellite would present problems. Ordinary bombs released from the bomb bay would merely follow along the orbit like smaller satellites. They would have to be shot downward to increase their falling rate and allow them to catch up with the curving surface of the earth. Shooting them backward would have a similar effect. If they were shot backward at a speed equal to the satellite's forward speed on its orbit, they would stand still in space for an instant. Then they would fall vertically toward the earth. The whole satellite could be brought down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Foxhole in the Sky | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

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