Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most important reason for this awkardness is English A's system of sectioning its students. It screens incoming Freshmen with a difficult and tricky Anticipatory Examinations, then herds the 900-old students who flunk the test into a formidable collection of sections, grouped without a glance towards individual writing skills. The result, as '52 already knows, is pretty unfortunate. Section men find themselves teaching down to their slower students, while better writers are held back and end up learning little...
...months later, unexpectedly, and for no apparent good reason, the mail started coming...
...this chamber that protrous are sent spinning at whirlwind velocities before they crash into fissionable material. However, all the air must be removed so that the protons will not collide with stray atoms in their path. This is the reason for the vacuum...
...yardage on but two plays: the wingback reverse and the tailback-around-strong-side-end. Davey Nelson explained that the Crimson inside game was failing, but that the outside game made up for it. Both big gain plays were outside the tackles. Nelson went on to show one reason why the outside and not the inside game was working. The Eli backers-up consistently played in close behind the line...
...reason for the increase is obvious, Dr. Guthrie believes: "As the span of life increases, more people reach the senile period . . . The incidence of illness increases anyway with the aging process, and mental illness is one of them." Another factor is the growth of cities. "City dwellers can't tolerate little aberrations [among members of their families] as well as country people." City life, too, is more complicated for the mentally ill. (A Guthrie example: "A shepherd in Wyoming might be as schizophrenic as can be. He wouldn't last five minutes in Times Square...