Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jobs for the next phase of their struggle for independence: Sjahrir would head the underground resistance against the Japanese occupiers, Sukarno and Hatta would collaborate with them. The Dutch administrators and businessmen were herded into Japanese concentration camps, and native bureaucrats, who had never been allowed above the lower rungs of government, took charge under the guidance of Japanese officers. Sukarno was at last in his element, free to roam the country and make countless broadcasts. "America we shall iron out, England we shall destroy," he cried. He urged Indonesians to enlist in defense forces recruited and armed...
Choosy Virus. What has held up the men of medicine in developing a vaccine against measles is the finicky nature of the virus. Man alone seems to be its natural host. The only lower species that can be infected with it are monkeys. For years, researchers reported growing measles virus in other animals or fertilized eggs, only to have the submicroscopic particles vanish. This line of attack proved so disappointing that Dr. Enders (Ph.D.) gave it up 20 years...
...After G.E. won the suit against Masters in New York. Masters opened a mail-order discount business in Washington, D.C., which has no Fair Trade law. Masters offered merchandise for sale anywhere, including Fair Trade states. G.E. sued again, but when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a lower-court decision in favor of Masters, G.E. was licked...
...opposition to this measure was indicated privately, and to any other one which would involve "further differentiation" between students in Honors and non-Honors programs. One senior Faculty member called the proposal "an uncalled-for separation of the sheep and the goats," and warned against "a false assumption of lower standards among non-Honors candidates...
...didn't mind. He lifted her in his arms and put her in his buggy and drove her out for a ride. Parked out beside Lake Pontchartrain, he asked her to marry him. She winced; then, without saying anything, she threw aside the quilt that had covered her lower half. From the waist down, she was a fish. She dived into the lake and swam...