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...Almost one-fourth of the world's people develop myopia; up to 15% of U.S. schoolchildren are afflicted. So far, eye doctors have been at a loss for any means to correct the condition or to arrest its advance. Last week, in a cautious preliminary report, the experts suggested that a corrective may have been found by chance in the wearing of contact lenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hopes for Myopes | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...One hundred girls, or one-third of the Radcliffe freshman class, are receiving scholarship help, the Office of the Dean of Instruction has announced. This compares with Harvard's 260 freshman scholarship holders, about one-fourth of the class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Aid Increases | 11/14/1957 | See Source »

...second approach has been to transfer students instead of teachers. According to Jansen, 5,000 students, mostly non-whites, have been transferred to less crowded schools. But in over one-fourth of the cases, this entails traveling as much as two miles to class...

Author: By Charles I. Kingson, | Title: The North's Backyard | 10/23/1957 | See Source »

This idea was started last year on a much smaller scale, with only 20 forced commuters in the Class of 1960, less than one-fourth of this year's number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Number of '61 Commuters Reaches New Record of 95 | 10/4/1957 | See Source »

...days later the heroes were themselves chased, caught and captured, not by the British but by the armed brig Convention, in the service of Pennsylvania. They were hauled into the port of Philadelphia, where the admiralty court ordered the vessel sold and the prize money divided one-half to the Pennsylvania seamen, one-fourth to the Pennsylvania treasury and only one-fourth to Gideon Olmstead and friends. During the next 30 years one federal court after another ordered Pennsylvania to hand over the Active prize money to Olmstead, but the state of Pennsylvania doggedly refused to comply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: Spirit of Marshall & Madison | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

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