Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although large, the number is a drop from peak graduate enrollment during the war years...
...typical problem in education would appear like this: We are given letter grades in four coursed for a certain number of individuals. We would like to pool these letter grades to form a scale of scholastic achievement. Since the distribution of grades in the several courses are quite different, even more variable must be considered in the problem...
...bathrooms contain separate shower and dressing compartments designed to help eliminate Saturday-night waiting, and the large number of wash basins is supplemented by special shampooing sinks complete with hair sprays...
Council officers, however, have extended a special invitation to men interested in working with the Council or on a committee. Under the present system committees, composed of a council member and a number of students study a particular problem in detail during the year and make a report on which the council can take action...
...coding box" consists of a six by ton foot panel of over 200 keys, each with a number or mathematical symbol on it, Using the keyboard with its familiar symbols, a mathematician can record on a magnetic tape all the commands the machine needs to solve his problem. Essentially, he "copies" his equations on the keys of the coding machine. When fed into the machine, his commands are then transferred from the magnetic tape to the sequence drum which then controls the operations necessary to solve the problem...