Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their spermatogenic cells withstand this nightly cooking? Dr. Cowles examined bats, both active and resting, in the breeding and the non-breeding seasons. He found that, while they are at rest, their hairless wings are pallid, almost bloodless. But when they raise their temperature to the flying level, which they must do by an effort of will before they can take off, their wings fill up with blood, and become as efficient in heat dissipation as automobile radiators...
...many states need federal funds; in addition they need the stimulus in many cases to do more with their own resources." President Conant followed this statement with a sanction of the proposed legislation approving the plan to grant aid to those states which cannot reach a "safe minimum level" after alloting 2.2 percent of their total income...
...situation in the Government Department, possessor of the largest undergraduate enrollment in the college, is perhaps most typical. While expressing its "desire to resume tutorial at the full level permitted by the faculty vote at the earliest possible date," Merle Fainsod, Chairman, pointed out that, tutorial or no tutorial, the Government Department shares the manpower difficulties facing men in all fields...
...Languages Small classes provide teacher-student relationshipThe Fine Arts Questionnaire not yet receivedGeology and Geography None Tutorial not necessaryGermanic Languages Honors Seniors and as much other tutorial as possible Favor full-scale tutorialGovernment Honors Seniors, Juniors above Group IV, and Sophomores for one term Favor "full tutorial at full level permitted by faculty vote"History Maximum allowed, except for Sophomores No departmental view givenIndic Philology Questionnaire not yet answeredMathematics Honors Juniors and Seniors Tutorial at limit set by regulationsMineralogy Questionnaire not yet receivedMusic "Basic Piano" and Tutorial for Honors Seniors Basic Piano is still experimentalPhilosophy Questionnaire not yet receivedPhysics None...
Again & again SCAP had told the Japanese Government to get rid of the Control Association system which perpetuated zaibatsu (big business) domination of the economy but had not been able to raise Japan's production above one-third of the 1930 level. Last week when, in the face of impending economic disaster, the rubbery Yoshida Government again evaded the Control Association issue, MacArthur even threatened to seek advice from the four-power Allied Control Council...