Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is a possibility, Martin remarked, that Sauer will be brought into the College full-time next year, to lecture in some lower level General Education course, such...
...force do great injury to our people." lower house caucus that he will soon try to pass a bill setting up a multistate, multimillion-dollar fund to sell Southern segregation ideas in the North the way Hollywood sells a movie star...
...better to be the only democrat in Germany, where democracy is unknown, than one of many in Norway, where everybody understands it." The late Socialist Mayor Ernst Reuter took Brandt under his wing. Soon Brandt, regaining his German citizenship, became a member of the West German Bundestag (Lower House) in Bonn, president of the West Berlin house of representatives (city parliament), and last year West Berlin's mayor. In 1956, after other leaders had failed, Brandt dissuaded an angry mob of 75,000 from marching into the Soviet sector to protest the Russian intervention in Hungary...
...Speak." The infusion of underprivileged Negroes into the all-white school system has brought down the scholastic level (to what the two systems would have been before if averaged together). The national ninth-grade median IQ is 101.5-Washington's is now 94. But while Negroes generally score lower than whites, there has also been consistent progress since integration. Most Negro children, notably the youngest, are advancing each year at the pace regarded as normal for whites. More and more Negroes are also breaking through into the honors classes of many high schools...
...importance lay in the fact that previously (except for rare cases in monkeys and expensive great apes) no animal had been known to develop arterial disease like a human being's, despite ingenious laboratory tricks. Researchers have learned much from rabbits, rats and chickens, but findings from these lower forms of life cannot be applied simply and directly to human diseases. The baboon, despite its lousy pelt, its foul temper and its embarrassingly lurid hind quarters (brilliant scarlet in the female when she is in heat) seemed the answer to a researcher's prayer...