Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although some wealthy donors have contributed substantially, the total number of large gifts has fallen far short of precedents established in comparable drives at other institutions...
...resignation, though not entirely unexpected, opens up the forthcoming election for Council President. It had been assumed that Oliver would run again, and he had strong support within the Council. To date, no one has announced his candidacy, but this latest development will probably increase the number of hats in the ring...
...tell, as early as the eleventh week of pregnancy, whether a woman will have one baby, twins or triplets. In the A.M.A. Journal, three Navy doctors said they used the electroencephalograph (brainwave machine), pasted leads to the women's abdomens, got recordings of electrical impulses that indicated the number of fetal hearts. The method, they noted, is far safer (for both mother and children) than X rays. Source of the data: servicemen's wives at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Portsmouth...
Last week at Grand Ridge, Ill., Arthur Walter Seed Co. was offering farmers a pick-your-yield service. The farmer merely brings in a soil sample, writes down whatever number of bushels per acre he desires, and in half an hour gets back a seed and fertilizer prescription. Says Vice President Everett C. Walter: "It's just as easy to raise 100 bushels an acre corn as 50 bushels. The only chance is weather, and there is not too much chance in that...
Criticizing the present system of legal education, Griswold asserted, "What we ought to be teaching is how to go about attacking and resolving new problems, not the specific details about a vast number of problems which happen to be current now." Students, he warned, should realize "that we are not teaching them everything about everything...