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...basal temperature chart, Dr. Farris concedes, in his Human Fertility and Problems of the Male (The Author's Press, White Plains, $5), has some value in determining the most likely time for conception. But he insists that it is often inaccurate, that its use may hinder, rather than help, conception. The most accurate way to find out when an egg is about to be released, says Dr. Farris, is to use a test he developed as head of Philadelphia's Wistar Institute of Anatomy & Biology...
Because the beginning skier has no knowledge of the techniques of slowing down, he travels very fast on his skiis. However, to stop him from going too fast, beginner's slopes are usually almost flat. As the skiier advances, he learns to hinder his progress by slowing up more effectively. To balance this the intermediate slopes are a little steeper than those for the beginner. The science of skiing is, therefore, a mathematical progression. The steeper the slope of the hill is, the slower the experienced skiier is able...
When the old appointed Student Council was abolished in favor of an elected representative body, the President of the retiring Council wrote that "the future alone will show whether greater concern with daily problems will hinder work an questions of long-term policy." It has Since 1916, this elected Council has been unable to do a thorough job of investigating and evaluating important matters of University policy toward the Students. Those who reorganize the Council this term must find the type of democratic group which can best fulfill Council potentialities...
Dolores Ibarruri, called "La Pasionaria," born the daughter of a coalminer, worked as a washerwoman. She won her nickname for her fiery speeches during Spain's civil war (sample: "Women of Madrid! Do not hinder your husbands from going to war. It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a miserable coward"). She is now secretary general of what's left of the Spanish Communist Party...
...look like being permanently the paupers of the English-speaking world," the bishop declared. "We need to restrict our population . . . We must preserve the better stocks in the population, and hinder the increase of the worse . . . We need to preserve the good-living, honest, hard-working classes in our people, whether they be rich or poor ... A time is quickly coming when sterilization of the unfit will have to be essential in our social organization...