Word: median
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negro Harlem has an annual tuberculosis death rate of 250 per 100,000 (against 69 for the city as a whole); the median rent in its crowded, stinky black-holes is $50 a month; in the city at large, $35. "The first race riot in New York was in 1712. The most recent was in 1935. The last is not yet." But Negroes like their Harlem. ("I'd rather be a lamppost on Lenox Avenue [Harlem's Main Street] than Governor of Georgia...
Last week Dr. Flanagan reported that he had proved definitely that college graduates are no less capable of producing children than other groups. But most of his group, whose median salary was more than $5,000, believed they could not afford to have as many children as they wanted. Chief reason: the high cost of educating their children. No nest egg for college, no children...
...Four out of five youngsters (including almost half of the married couples) are living with their parents. Only 3% of the unmarried ones want to leave home. Nearly all want to marry, have a home and children (but not so many as their parents). Youth is still marrying early; median marrying age of the Maryland boys was 21, of the girls, 19, and 13% of the brides had married at 16 or younger...
Work: The commission estimated that 3,000,000 U. S. youngsters between 16 and 24 today are unemployed. Three out of ten in Maryland were jobless, and some had been looking as long as seven years for their first full-time job. Median pay of the youngsters with jobs was $12.96 a week...
...reading, arithmetic, language usage and spelling, Roslyn's 900 elementary schoolchildren are slightly below normal, but the reason is not a failure in instruction but the fact that their average intelligence is below par (median I. Q.: 96).* The committee concluded the children were performing up to their ability...