Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seniors who graduated without Honors planned to go on to graduate school, but the figure almost doubled for those who graduated with Honors, ranging from 75 per cent for those with Cum degrees to a high of 89 per cent for Magna Highest and Summa. Of the three most popular graduate schools (arts and sciences, medicine, and law), medical schools accepted the highest number of non-Honors graduates, while arts and sciences claimed the most Magna Highest and Summas...
...harder a man's job and the worse his worries, according to popular myth, the higher his blood pressure. Not so, said the British Medical Journal last week. After careful investigation, the Journal concluded: "People in light work with less expenditure of energy, higher incomes and higher standards of living had higher pressures." And contrary to expectation, "an inverse correlation was found with family size-the larger the family, the lower the pressure...
...concentrated on bringing out a fleet of brand-new cars to fill in the gaps in their lines and expand their growing markets still more. Italy's Fiat brought out an 81-h.p. hardtop two-seater to compete in the $3,200 price class with Britain's popular Austin Healeys, added a new baby line called the "Jolly," with four wicker seats and a price tag of about $1,000. France's big-selling Simca has a new line of medium-priced ($1,445 to $1,968) sedans in 144 model and color combinations. Renault, which...
...illustrate typical Soviet humor, he related a story popular in Russia this summer. Khrushchev, he said, was marking a tour of Soviet farms and hired a peasant to sit on top of Moscow towers to watch for the advent of true Communism which would replace the present "preliminary, benevolent" Soviet state...
...both groups, which made the concert so satisfying for the audience. The singers were at their very best in songs which are familiar, performing them with a combination of vigor and perfection which fully realized the qualities which make these songs, from "Men of Harlech" to "Bulldog! Bulldog! "so popular and appealing. They were worth doing, and they were certainly done well...