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Word: lowers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least ten nations have lower infant mortality rates than the U.S.; if the U.S.'s rate were as low as Sweden's, 40,-000 babies that now die each year would be saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: TO REDEEM THE WORST, TO BETTER THE BEST | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

...perceptive, responsive state. Both have passable accents; neither appears to strain to preserve it. I don't think Arthur Friedman looks like the forty-year-old man called for in the strip. This distorts his relation to Bill, a man in his twenties who rose from the lower classes by Harry's grace. The last member of the company, Sheila Hart, does an adequate job with the relatively small part of Stella, the maybe-sinner...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: An Evening With Pinter and Beckett | 2/16/1967 | See Source »

Cook believes grades "have nothing to do with education" and are used for the wrong purpose, such as ranking for the Selective Service. But simply giving out high grades, he said, would be an ineffective way of fighting the Selective Service, since it would only lower the class rank of students outside his course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale, Columbia Professors Forced To Back Down on Grading Fight | 2/15/1967 | See Source »

...Small stole the puck inside the Harvard blue line, skated around Diercks' ankle, and shot behind him into the goal. At 5:48 Macks lined up a pass from the corner to Devaney, who slapped it into the goal's lower left corner...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Bruins' Hot First Line Butchers Sextet, 9-1 | 2/13/1967 | See Source »

...Figures on South Vietnamese disease casualties are not meticulously kept, but their rate is markedly lower since the soldiers have resistance to local illnesses. The Viet Cong are naturally saying nothing, but the same can be presumed true of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diseases: Viet Nam's Time Bomb | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

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