Word: median
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view when they returned. But no longer was a majority of the class in favor of Government ownership of utilities. Learning for the first time that there were two sides to the question, enough pro-Government-ownership students had switched to an undecided or opposite position to make the median score of the class neutral...
...given year, Love on the Run should win it. From the first word in its title to the last shot on the screen, of Crawford kissing Gable, it represents a kind of bright, composite photograph which, for historians, might be labeled Mass Entertainment 1936. Important only to historians, the median 1936 cinema should please the average 1936 cinemaddict. Average shot: Franchot Tone telling Joan Crawford a knock-knock: "Machiavelli good suit...
...average of 30 books and 40 magazines a month, Author Derleth scored a clean 97-missing three questions in Transport, two in Business & Finance, one each in Science, National Affairs, Foreign News. I am curious to know how this compares with the average score. HUGO SCHWENKER Sauk City, Wis. Median scores on latest TIME test: college students-53 ; senior high school students-44; junior high school students...
Such was one of the questions which Columbia's famed Psychologist Edward Lee Thorndike lately put to 40 unemployed young men and women. The men asked a median price of $260,000,000, the women $1,375,000. Next Professor Thorndike promised them secrecy in their cannibalism. Promptly the men lost their squeamishness, dropped their price to $50,000. The women still wanted $750,000. Finally Dr. Thorndike made the same offers to 24 unemployed men and women over 40. Two-thirds of them flatly refused to practice cannibalism at any price. Professor Thorndike wanted chiefly to find...
...spitting on a picture of George Washington or Charles Darwin, a deed which nearly half the younger subjects would do for $10, the oldsters set a median price...