Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joseph D. Murphy '55, a member of the Student Council Elections Committee, estimated that between 70 and 80 percent of House members voted. Voting percentages were higher in each House than in last year's election...
...rejection to the Eisenhower plan. At first, the Russians apparently under estimated its world wide appeal. But they finally realized that it has aroused strong response in many of the world's underdeveloped areas--countries which the Soviet Union is so strenuously cultivating. These underdeveloped areas, in search of higher living standards, have come to regard atomic energy as their best hope for producing the quantities of power needed for large-scale industrial development. The main function of the proposed international agency would be providing atomic training and research facilities and, above all, fissionable materials for use in experimental nuclear...
...those days an imaginary social-economic boundary divided the state capital of Natal (turn-of-the-century pop. 16,000) into two distinct dietary sections. On the lower ground, near the sea, lived the cangulei-ros, the poorer people who ate a cheap fish called the cangulo; on the higher ground lived the more prosperous xarias', who could afford to eat a more succulent fish called the xareu. The part-Indian Cafes were canguleiros...
...series of anecdotes describes the Annex's early struggle against a storm of masculine protest. But McCord notes that a "satisfying outburst of remonstrance and expostulation" at the idea of higher education for women subsided very quickly in the Cambridge community. The earliest bluestockings "showed ladylike behavior in all respects," he writes, citing an early report from one of the College's founders which states, "We have had as yet no flighty students...
...early to predict accurately just how well Harvard will do this season. It can't do much worse than it has done the past few years, but this will be a building year for Wilson, and he will be happy if it just finished higher than last place, a not too impossible feat...