Word: median
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader Miller is quite right. TIME misinterpreted the figures it used. On the basis of two samplings made in July, C.A.B. got a "median rating" for evening half-hour programs of 6.2%-that is, the average program in that category reached between six and seven radio homes out of 100. This was not, as TIME said, a low point since 1930 but simply a summer low for 1941. High for 1941: 12.4%, in February...
...Alumni of the East's Big Three (Yale, Harvard, Princeton) have by far the highest median incomes: Big Three-$4,700; other Ivy League alumni-$3,240; Big Ten (Middle West)- $2,850; median for all U.S. colleges...
...group included more than 1,000 grade-school pupils, averaging nine or ten years, and more than 250 high-school students, with a median age of 15. Jews ranked easily best, followed by children of old U. S. stock originally from New England or the Middle West...
Allied sources estimated-possibly over-estimated-last week that Hitler has 20,000 parachutists in reserve for such an invasion, and 2,000 transport planes capable of ferrying almost one division per hour of regular infantry across the 130-mile median distance from the European to the British lowlands. But the full power of the invading troops-armored equipment and artillery-would have to go in surface transports. British mines threaten these, so before the parachutists take off Phase 2 of the German plan would be minesweeping. Several narrow channels through the minefields might be swept in one dark night...
...Median salary: under...