Word: overwhelmingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A few at 124 grumble about not meeting enough new people. Most feel themselves isolated from the mainstream of brick dorm living. Yet an overwhelming majority welcome this isolation. They believe that eating dinner in the dormitories provides ample opportunity for maintaining contact with the residential college while still avoiding...
"The overwhelming majority" of non-honors Harvard students who apply are admitted to at least one accredited medical school, the report continues. Although science concentrators are more likely to be admitted, their performance in medical school is "virtually identical" to that of non-science concentrators. The only group that seems...
Yamasaki's approach to architecture than his reaction to two architectural wonders during a trip to India in 1954. The first wonder was the Taj Mahal, with its inlays of marble and its inexhaustible detail. From a distance it was "a vision," but as Yamasaki approached it, the vision...
the city that had sent Lindbergh across the Atlantic. An inspection tour of other airports left him unimpressed. Then he took a new long look at Manhattan's vaulted Grand Central Terminal. "Here," he decided, "is an entrance worthy of a city." First Honor. Yamasaki's plan called...
As they went on shift in Fontana, Calif., last week, 7,000 employees of the Kaiser Steel Corp. stopped off at improvised polling booths at the plant gates. By an overwhelming 74% vote, the Kaiser workers agreed to give a four-year trial to an experimental labor contract that may...