Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Commenting on the warnings issued by Dean Monro about the possible harmful affects of the drugs, Dr. Klerman stated that "on a purely statistical basis the incidence of these [harmful] effects is rather low. However, they do occur more frequently than, say, with aspirin...
...neutrons at a steady rate, 2) graphite, which slows neutrons down but does not absorb them, and 3) cadmium, which absorbs neutrons very effectively. As the control rods were withdrawn-so the experimenters figured-fewer of the neutrons from the uranium would be absorbed, and therefore more fission would occur. At some point of withdrawal, fission would be producing new batches of neutrons faster than the cadmium would be absorbing them. Result: a chain reaction...
...than automobile travel. But William A. Patterson, the outspoken president of United Air Lines, has much that is discomforting to say about air safety. He argues that airlines may be overcrowding planes in their scramble for revenues, resulting in chaos in the rush for emergency exits when accidents do occur. Others point out that such overloading encourages dangerously high take-off and landing speeds...
Jewett admitted that the committee can make mistakes in roommate combinations, because it is difficult to tell from paper forms what a boy will really be like when he arrives in September. The number of actual roommate break-ups is about eight or ten a year. "Generally, these splits occur because one roommate plays his violin at all hours of the night, or for some other reason connected with personal habits," Jewett continued. "Roommates almost never break up over large questions of educational or cultural values...
...White American from his insulated world of false satisfaction about what little has been done to alter-basically the Negro's human situation. It seeks also to shock him from his irresponsible stance of taking for granted the Negro's plight, and from his belief nothing really earthshaking will occur among Negroes if their reality is not transformed in the near future. In short, Baldwin's aggressive--yet humane and sensitive--definition of the Negro's relationship to American society endeavors to bring White American to a proper comprehension of the Negro's dreadful reality, and to illuminate for them...