Word: fours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most (77%) had done some teaching, and 83% had been some sort of executive on the college level (one out of four had been a dean...
...Apollo, both turboprops. For feeder-lines, it had both De Havilland's reciprocating engined Dove (eight to eleven passengers) and Handley Page's 22-passenger turboprop, the Mamba Marathon.* But the star of the show at Farnborough was De Havilland's 36-passenger Comet, the first four-engined jet transport, which took off and then flashed overhead at better than 500 m.p.h...
...still likes to remember. Infantry Captain Billy Mitchell, 32, had just come back from Japan where he had had a look at the Japanese army. Did Lieut. Arnold know that the Japs had a bigger air force than the U.S.-ten planes to the U.S.'s total of four? Captain Mitchell was writing a paper for the War College on the future of military aviation, but since he had not yet learned to fly he needed to pump one of the handful of U.S. officers-like Hap Arnold-who had. Thirty-three years and endless air power controversies later...
Dean George P. Berry announced today the promotion of four members of the Faculty of Medicine and changes of title for two others...
Until now, he added, little has been done with discriminate functions when it is desired to split the population into three or four parts. The lack of progress is mainly due to the very heavy computational work that would be associated with proper formulation of such a problem. As modern computing machinery becomes available to scientists, Mosteller stated, they will no longer be so reluctant to formulate problems which require heavy computation...