Word: lowers
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...foreign policies. Irritating as it may seem in times of crisis, the founding fathers intended that the Senate should act in just this way-as a chamber of deliberate counsel, second thoughts and extended debate, a guardian against rashness on the part either of the popularly elected lower House or of the President. The Senate has had its greater and its lesser days-and at any given time its current members usually suffer by comparison with the "giants" of a nostalgically remembered past. It has, in fact, changed and renewed itself often, reflecting the facts of American history and politics...
...significant fact which Heer has discovered in his research is that although birth and death rates in the USSR and the U.S. are approximately equal, total births per woman of child-bearing age in Russia are somewhat lower than in the United States. This paradoxical situation occurs because there are more Russians than Americans in the prime fertility age, between 20 and 29 years old. The Great Depression drastically reduced the prime fertility age group in America today...
...second project, Heer is making a statistical analysis of the social factors which differentiate fertility of nations. He has approached the problem of the effects of economic development on fertility in a unique way. Although experts have always known that economic development means a lower birth-rate, Heer claims the direct result of economic development is an increase in fertility. An example is the large increase in the American birth rate in the prosperous post World War II period...
...other events, the Crimson will settler for lower places. Navy sophomore Robert Donahue, who has run a 0:06.1 and owns a victory over Fordham great Sam Perry, looks like a sure winner. But Wayne Anderson, the defending champion in the event, may take the second...
Chalmers' impeccable British reserve doesn't entirely conceal a man who is wreaking a revolution upon Harvard's House system. This year's experiment with a "House course," Nat Sci I, an acknowledged success. Master Chalmers hopes to add another course to the House curriculum next year--a lower level Soc. Sci on current problems in American government, economics, and sociology...