Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...larger M.D.C. budget will overcome this obstacle, however, providing as well a proportional division of expenses...
...records of 300 cases of "severe flatulent dyspepsia" and found only one man and three unmarried women. Of the married women in his records, all but six were frigid. One group of 128 had enjoyed marriage at first but then developed frigidity, often after having "too many" children. The larger group of 162 had been frigid all their adult lives. Dr. Robertson found that these were the women who as girls had hated a domineering or drunken father, and had clung to mother. As adults, five-sixths of them were still clutching mother's apron strings...
After studying the college records of 344 Andover, Exeter, and Lawrenceville alumni the committee found that, in college the boys were merely repeating the work they had done in school. About one in every three was taking an introductory course in American history for the second time; an even larger number was repeating elementary physics, biology, or chemistry. "Furthermore, the great majority of the prospective concentrators in engineering or the physical sciences spent four years, two in school and two in college, completing elementary physics and elementary chemistry . . ." Concluded the committee: "The basic weakness . . . is a failure of the school...
...matches its digits against sound patterns in her memory. Then she flashes numbered lights to show what she has heard. Audrey can be tuned to one man's vocal manners and will read his speech correctly 98% of the time. When Bell scientists equip her with a larger vocabulary and teach her to recognize anyone's speech, they hope to put her to work as a telephone operator...
...Greenblatt 3L vice-president, and Glenn secretary-treasurer. At their first regular meeting 65 students showed up to hear the club's adviser. Louis Loss, professor of law, talk on "Securities Regulations." By December the membership had been temporarily closed at 53, pending the club's discovery of a larger meeting room...