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Word: medians (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...claims to have the highest density of telephones of any community in the world (50,000 for 14,300 people). The average family income is more than $19,000. There are no slums, no visibly poor, and no night life. Today's population is the oldest, with a median age of 46.8 years, of any major California city, and a high time in the old town consists for the most part of a movie and a malted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Suburbs: Middle-Aged Myth | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

Also less pretentious, less purple, and more palpable than the Advocate median is "Set Theory," by Donald Bloch, a mature and controlled observation of a son returned from school to the familiar, petty bitchinesses of his parents. Bloch infuses the trivial "stuff of life" that makes up his story with an unusual intensity. Yet he does not languish turgidly over details, a favorite indulgence of Porter and Mary Seager, forcing the reader to rush his eyes downward, hungry for a little less talk and more action...

Author: By Jacos R. Brackman, | Title: The Advocate | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

...prosper at law, it appears, is to belong to a firm, the bigger the better. In Philadelphia, the median income of lawyers who work by themselves is $11,000 a year. In partnerships of two or three lawyers, the median rises to $15,000. With four or five in the firm, the figure is $17,000. In firms where the roster of partners runs to twelve or more lawyers, median income reaches upward to a level that many a successful doctor might find impressive-$28,500 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lawyers: Now, About the Fee . . . | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

...figures were available on the number of additional scholarships that will be requested, but observers felt that a minimum of 25 is needed if the College is to keep the median family income of scholarship holders--an important measure of the economic spread in the College--from rising significantly. The median income for scholarship families...

Author: By Efrem Sigel, | Title: Admissions Office Asks More New Scholarships | 11/6/1963 | See Source »

They said the Drive would have to be at least 100 feet wide at the Boylston St. underpass in order to accommodate the necessary turn-off ramps and median divider. Depending on the exact position of the underpass, a ramp will grase--or run directly through--the Weld Boat House...

Author: By Martin S. Levine, | Title: Underpass Threatens Boat House; New Access Road May Brush Eliot | 10/9/1963 | See Source »

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