Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Economic status (upper fourth, 84%; lowest fourth, 53%) was even more indicative than education. Citizens with plenty of money but only grade-school education, voted 13% more heavily than those with a college diploma but low income...
Fresno's functional city hall is handsome, economical, moderately experimental in plan and design. It is a low (two-story), flat-roofed structure, surfaced with unpainted red brick, trimmed with stainless steel and aluminum. Architects were Fresno's Franklin & Kump & Associates. Construction costs were $290,000. To cut future maintenance bills, Architects Franklin & Kump eliminated all elevators, made use of natural light by means of oversize windows, skylights, glass panels atop interior walls. Instead of stairways, the building has wide ramps. Central feature of the building is an open two-story lobby. On the second floor...
...using high-frequency currents to boil penicillin solutions, R.C.A.'s Dr. George Harold Brown can dehydrate the drug in 30 minutes, compared with the 24 hours required by the freeze-drying process now in use. Dr. Brown boils the solution at 50° F. in a low vacuum (penicillin disintegrates at high temperatures). This takes out about 90% of the moisture. A few minutes of freeze-drying finishes...
These figures represent a drop of almost 300 from the March total of 1,550, and a somewhat larger decline from the total of 1,780 civilian students who registered last July, a for cry from the peacetime averages of 8,000 University students, and from the low mark of 3,684 during the first World...
Registration at the graduate schools has fallen to a new low of 531. This does not include the Law School, which will open July 31 with an expected attendance of about 45 students, as contrasted to a normal enrollment of more than 800. In peace-time the graduate schools usually accommodated about 4,500 students...