Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because of the impossibility of representation, many students thus feel nothing but disdain for those who bid for their vote and pass themselves off as their representatives. In addition the belief of the academically oriented that those who politick are in a lower class causes disdain for another reason, and so the student may mark his ballot with the patronizing view that he is pampering to the foolish whims of these politicos who perhaps do what they do because they lack the intellectual strength to study and become immersed in academics, and so must compensate for their academic weaknesses...
...Administration is also under pressure not to let the transgressions of its students reach the public. Some Boston papers are eager to receive any report that will lower the public estimate of Harvard, and Harvard authorities are just as eager to frustrate them in their desire. Thus the beating of town youths may go almost unpunished if the athletes involved are valuable to the university; for it is better to let them off with a stern warning than to put them on probation or expel them and risk the nastiness of sensationalist press coverage...
...image of the sun no man on earth has ever before seen. Clouds of hot (6,000° C.) hydrogen gas, swirling 4,000 to 6,000 miles above the sun's surface, showed up in the photographs as white blotches above the dark areas of lower-altitude gas. Aided by photographs taken in two other wave lengths of visible light from ground stations in California, New Mexico, Michigan and Washington, D.C., the Aerobee's photographs give astronomers a sort of three-dimensional picture of the violent energy processes in the sun's atmosphere. Eventually, such rocket...
...academic boss, President Henry P. Van Dusen of Union Theological Seminary, took them both to task in the Christian Century for not taking into consideration the fact that the Book of Job is not one book but two-a poem with a prose introduction and conclusion on a much lower level. Since the picture of Job is not consistent in the first place, says Van Dusen, Dr. Terrien's complaint that J.B. is not faithful to the Book of Job is irrelevant. Instead of "slavish imitation" of the Biblical Job, "Mr. MacLeish authentically sets forth the response...
Like Dr. Rhine in his work on extrasensory perception, Researcher Loehr found that some people are better at it than others. One woman scored slightly lower than average in praying her seedlings up, but when she tried "negative prayer," the seedlings showed hardly any life at all. "She was rather shaken by the experience," writes Loehr, "but I am keeping her name and address on file. The time may come when those with effective prayer-negation power will be sought again for their healing help." How does one go about praying negatively? One experimenter resorted to calling her seedlings Communists...