Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...demands placed upon the teaching fellow and upon the professor by the student will, in all likelihood, grow heavier in the next few years. As the level of undergraduate intelligence rises the demand for a deep and more creative teacher will grow stronger. That the level of intelligence is rising is obvious--the class of '56 scored a median of 583 on its Standard Achievement Tests while the median for the class...
...blithely cast off without political loss. Perhaps this explains Rayburn and Johnson in their "respectable" about-faces. These turn-abouts cannot be taken too seriously, however--they probably represent only a rapid calculation of a turning tide on the issue of national defense. They do not increase the likelihood of a hardy school construction program or of an adequate UIA. The hot air of the democratic idealist seems doomed to escape with a rather unseemly phfft for at least the next few years...
...slums or on the streets. The project aroused the esthetic displeasure of famed Art Expert Bernard Berenson: it would lie on the road to his villa. And it aroused the political wrath of the Social Democrats because of La Pira's failure to consult them. Faced with the likelihood of a vote of "no confidence," La Pira resigned as mayor...
...long talks he has been conducting in Cairo with Egypt's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi, and the Egyptian attitude is described as polite and reasonable. As a result, the U.S. decided against taking the problem to the U.N. Security Council, where there is also a strong likelihood that Soviet Russia would veto any formula that might conceivably suit both Egypt and Western user nations...
...coronary thrombosis. Doctors, including Boston's Paul Dudley White, summoned to Puerto Rico by Governor Luis Munoz Marin, were optimistic about recovery, hoped that with complete rest he might even be able to play and conduct again in the future. But Casals' friends sadly faced the likelihood that his 'active career as a musician was over...