Word: naturales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Now it can be persuasively argued that one class does not constitute a trend. But there are factors in the College community conspiring to make such a trend permanent. Primarily and most understandably, there exists the natural affinity of a group of scholars for its own profession. For the undergraduate...
¶ "Competition in academic life," says Riesman, a lawyer before he became a sociologist, "has an especially biting quality ... I would certainly warn anyone not to enter teaching if he plans to do so because he thinks the people in it are so nice.'' All Riesman's...
The international Conference of Experts that met in Geneva last summer concluded that a worldwide system of 180 inspection stations could detect nearly all underground nuclear tests. Any explosion of even the modest energy of 5 kilotons, they figured, could be distinguished from the noise made by small earthquakes and...
The stations listened attentively during October while the AEC made underground tests in faraway Nevada. The rock waves came through all right, but not quite as strongly as had been anticipated. At distances above 700 miles, only explosions of more than 20 kilotons could be identified clearly as manmade. To...
Why Mary Clarke chose to make Smith her principal heir and how she was able to amass $200,000 are questions as puzzling to acquaintances in Whitinsville, Mass. (pop. 8,000), where she was born, and Kingston, R.I., where she died, as they are to Smith fund raisers. The daughter...