Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chairman Bruner introduced a motion, not included in the report, which recommended that students be permitted to substitute two full courses given by scientific departments for the required lower-level science requirements. This regulation allows either Biology 2 or Chemistry 2 to be counted as a full course, since each assumes prior knowledge of the subject. It also permits the Physics 12 a, b, c sequence to be regarded as two full courses, since these three half-courses also assume prior study in calculus...
...room 20 ft. square. A 1½-ton, lead-shielded door closed behind him as orderlies helped him onto a table. From the ceiling, doctors and orderlies pulled down the snout of a huge, telescope-like General Electric X-ray machine and pointed it at the patient's lower abdomen...
Needed: A Moses. The same bafflement was evident in the face and voice of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson last week during his grim, two-day appearance before the Agriculture Committee to argue his case for lower price supports.*The arithmetic of Benson's battle fatigue: when he took over as Agriculture Secretary six years ago, he vowed to slash the cost of farm programs, which had averaged $1.5 billion a year in 1950-52; but in 1956-58, Agriculture Department outgo averaged $4.5 billion a year, and in the current fiscal year the total is estimated...
...Benson. Other committee members, Republicans as well as Democrats, made it plain that they did not see Bible-quoting Mormon Apostle Benson as the needed Moses. Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington charged Benson with trying to "lick this problem with phrases." North Dakota Republican Milton R. Young rumbled that the lower wheat supports requested by Benson "would break every wheat farmer...
DIESEL TAXICABS are catching on in New York, Washington, South Bend and San Francisco as cabbies switch to West Germany's Mercedes-Benz because of durability and lower fuel costs...