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Word: know (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...student at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at Oxford University, Kilson stated, "I happen to know personally one of the Harvard administrators responsible for admission (as a Negro student I was quite interested in this question), and I can assure you that for Harvard's part there is not one iota of discrimination in admitting Negro students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kilson Counters Charges Of Racial Discrimination | 12/17/1959 | See Source »

...input-output analysis by 35 interested foreign countries, the United States government has completely neglected the system in recent years. The last table devised for the U. S. economy was the 450-category chart made up in 1947. Interest at that time was occasioned by a wish to know the impact throughout the economy of an expansion of government spending on arms--the extent to which other types of production would have to contact, and the "bottle necks" that might arise...

Author: By Soma S. Golden, | Title: Loentief Relates Economic Theory to Fact | 12/17/1959 | See Source »

...with the Class of 1914, the Administration required that six of the 16 courses for the degree be in a single field and six others spread among three different fields. This, they hoped, would force every student in the College to achieve Lowell's ideal of a scholar--"to know a little of everything and something well...

Author: By Penelope C. Kline, | Title: Lowell's Regime Introduced Concentration and House System | 12/15/1959 | See Source »

...Veterans Administration Hospital in East Orange and in eleven New York hospitals (mainly in nonindustrial towns to reduce bias that might result from air pollution). It turned out that 63 of the men had died of lung cancer and 339 from other causes, but the pathologists did not know this until after they had finished their findings. Each "tree" was cut into 208 portions and embedded in paraffin. Fifty-five of these portions, chosen for microscopic study, were then sliced three microns thick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Smoking & Cancer (Contd.) | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Kerr, a partner in the Chicago investment house of Bacon, Whipple & Co., told the bankers that those "who know the invariable wisdom of balanced budgets, of stable money and of sound debt management must be moved to use every means to convince the people of this country that their standard of living and the freedom of their daily lives are at stake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Needed: A Balanced Budget | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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