Word: median
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...estimated that 20 per cent of the new Freshmen are under 17 years old, and that less than 15 per cent are over 18. In peacetime the average entering age was 18 years and two months, but the war has driven the median down to a point slightly below 17 years, five months. Between two and three per cent of today's registrants will probably be 15 year olds...
...There were 2,845 cases of meningitis in the first five weeks of 1944, compared with 1,612 in the same period last year and a five-year median of only...
...peacetime, the average entering age was 18 years and two months, but the war has driven the median down to a point slightly below 17 years, five months. Over 85% of the men who started college work in July were under 18, and over 61% of the members of '47b fell into that classification...
...last year's 18 teachers, eleven did not come back. One grade-school teacher stayed, eight quit. Six high-school teachers stayed, three quit. The median teaching experience of the ten replacements is one and a quarter years (three and three quarters fewer than that of those who quit); the median age is 22 years...
...fact that men students have control over the marriage proposal . . . has made women students much more clothes-conscious than men. ... In 1940-41, the median college woman . . . spent $111.14 for her wardrobe, as against the median male expenditure...