Word: median
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clearly Joseph Freeman's hope, in his first novel, to write a political and spiritual history of the 20th Century to date. His hero, Paul Schuman, a middle-class Viennese, thinks and feels along this century's grand median line of liberal optimism. He suffers, like many of the century's most symbolic men, in a concentration camp. He escapes, as most of them have not, to the U.S., where hope and war are relatively fresh, and where, with a psychoanalyst's help, he becomes fit for new fighting...
...strange thing about you is that you don't seem to get much older; and even though TIME has always been a magazine for young men and women, it strikes us as pretty interesting that judging by your median age you have grown only a month older in the past three years...
...median family income of those questioned had been between $5-10,000, with 28% over $10,000. (Buchmanism aims at "the up-&-outs...
...group they average ten years older (44) than the national median, are protected by permanent tenure, tolerant principals (who seldom rate a teacher unsatisfactory) and court rulings that make it almost impossible to remove even outright crackpots. Their lobbyists, who have al ways got on well with legislators, are now fighting tooth & nail against the board's attempt to lower the retirement age from...
...distinct type have usually failed, due to extreme personality variations among the cases studied. The only carmarks that approach universality are that (1) they typically display an awe of the sacred name of Harvard; (2) they have at least a passing interest in intellectual subjects (investigations prove that the median I.Q. of women is more than 10 points higher in Harvard Square than it is in Scollay Square); and (3) they are females (though this is of doubtful value in some cases). Any further scientific description calls for a division into types...