Word: medians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skit on the show caught on like The Honeymooners, the ironically titled description of a Brooklyn couple who had been married for ten years and fighting for nine years and twelve months. It was broad, low-median but honest humor, perhaps the best situation comedy that has ever been on television. As Ralph Kramden. husband and bus driver. Gleason stared with massive malevolence at his mother-in-law and pounded the kitchen table, a big man with big gestures under a half-acre of black curls. He looked like a big basset hound who had just eaten W. C. Fields...
Bargain Basement. Home buyers can expect a better break next year. The builders intend to trim home prices from this year's median of $15,100, to $14,950 in 1962. Behind the decision to cut prices are several factors: stiff competition, fears that the higher-priced market is saturated, and expectations that new FHA rules permitting smaller down payments will attract more lower-income families. More efficient building methods and increasing reliance on prebuilt parts will help bring prices down...
This treatment constitutes nothing less than deliberate evasion. Bender raised the question of scholarships to show that "no significant gains were made in lowering the economic barrier to a Harvard education." The median family income of scholarship holders rose from $4,900 in 1952 to $7,800 in 1960, Bender reported, and "Harvard is rapidly becoming a college serving only upper-middle income families." This point, one of Bender's most serious concerns, is entirely omitted from the News Office release...
...Harvard is rapidly becoming a college serving only upper-middle income families. . . . In 1950 the median family income of those admitted but denied scholarship aid who did not come to Harvard was $10,500. In 1960 the median family income of those admitted but denied aid who did not come...
...turn will start feeling in 1965. Colleges are now mainly confronted with rising ambition: from 14.6% in 1950. the proportion of Americans aged 18-24 seeking degrees reached 23.1% in 1960 (and 38% in California, the top state in college enrollment). All this fuels a rise in the median number of school years completed by adult Americans-from eight years in 1940 to eleven today...