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Word: median (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith stressed the fact that the median salary of those 55 percent who found work from other teaching institutions was $1276 a year, while the Harvard. vard graduates who secured jobs were receiving $2017, $17 higher than last year's average salary. Salaries for men who have received their Doctor's degree rose to over &6000, while the lowest wage was as much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SURPLUS OF JOBS OPEN TO TEACHERS UPON GRADUATION | 12/21/1932 | See Source »

...bulk of new accommodations added by the House Plan have been priced at $280 and above per man, and that there is need for an increase in the number of medium priced rooms around $240 and $260 per student." With this report in mind, the administration has fixed the median of the new rates at about $260. Further than this, the whole scale of rents between $500 and $600 has been wiped out and large additions have been made to the number of rooms within the $100-$200 range...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROOM RENTS | 12/9/1932 | See Source »

...peak of literary knowledge," reported Carnegie, "both of words and of books, is apparently reached in the freshman year; 53% of the college seniors tested in English literature and vocabulary stood lower than the median freshman. . . . Mathematics exhibits a consistent backward movement. . . . The sophomore group has the advantage in the intelligence scores. ... In general science 39% of the freshmen did better than the median senior; in foreign literature about 24%; in fine arts 36%; in general history 38%. In the test as a whole 30% of the seniors were below the freshman median, while about the same proportion of freshmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Students & Stomach Pumps | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

...front porch of the church is a thin John the Disciple carved on the median jamb of the red double doors. St. John is the greeter. For "ushers" he has on one side of the porch Prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Hosea, Amos, Micah; on the other side followers of Christ SS. Simeon, Stephen, Paul, Barnabas, Timothy. Carved above them on the arch of the porch are two rows of angels framing a row of greatest scientists (Hippocrates to Albert Einstein, only living person yet figured in the whole church), a row of philosophers (Pythagoras to Ralph Waldo Emerson, only American figured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Riverside Church | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

...states of New York and New Jersey. The remaining 10 percent came from the South and the Middle Atlantic States. In foreign countries the office sent teachers to Porto Rico, Honolulu, Brazil, and Turkey. Of all the people with whom the office has had anything to do the median salary has been figured to be $3000 for men and $1500 for women. For persons holding master's degrees the salary averages $2000 more than for those without this degree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 3/20/1930 | See Source »

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