Word: onefourth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hear her tell it, a woman teacher's ife is not always a happy one. Only one n ten of those who achieved the rank of ull professor is married; none has children. Though their younger colleagues are more domestic (onefourth of the associate professors and about one-third of the assistant professors are married), they seem to be even less content with their careers. Said one associate professor: "University teaching is still a man's game. All men . . . have a subconscious feeling that you are there on suffrance and ought to be thankful for anything...
...yellow fever in Latin America, leprosy all over Asia, TB in India and Europe. Last week WHO got its strongest testimonial to date: Russia, which walked out in 1949, walked back in. Typically, the Bolsheviks refused to pay $3,800,000 in back dues, offered to settle for about onefourth...
...most New York companies, automatically insures every New York driver who now carries liability coverage, along with members of his household or guests in his car, against bodily (but not property) injury that is the fault of any uninsured driver. Most of the state's mutual companies (onefourth of the total) will also pay damages regardless of who is to blame. The additional coverage (up to $10,000 per person but not more than $20,000 in all) is now free but will cost from $2.50 to $4 to drivers who choose to keep it when they renew their...
...will give Nelson Bunker Hunt, 29-year-old son of Texas Oilman H. L. Hunt, exclusive drilling rights in two 10,000-square-mile tracts. Hunt and Pakistan agreed to put a maximum of $42 million in exploration and development, of which Hunt will put up three-fourths, Pakistan onefourth...
...long, collapsible military maintenance shelter, which resembles a Quonset hut, made of canvas on a magnesium-alloy frame. It weighs slightly more than one ton (onefourth as much as other structures of the same size and strength...