Word: returned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...somewhat deprecatory. The reason was discovered before the replies reached the mouth of University Hall's IBM machine: a full page of statistics on Carriers of Intestinal Pathogens in Four Alaskan Communities had been substituted for the usual page two (marital status and reading habits). All in all, a return of only 70 per cent was received...
Still, one favorite quasi-statistical subject for speculation is what Harvard men do after graduation, and Tests and Placement tried again with last year's Class of 1958. The survey was far more compact and immediate, and many of the questionnaires were returned before the students had left the College, jumping the return up to 94 per cent of the total class...
...came from the fact that the Brattle wasn't designed as a movie theatre (or indeed as a theatre at all), and the projectors have to be behind the screen instead of over the balcony as in any other theatre. Being behind, the screen image is reversed, and to return the image to normal a prism previously had to be mounted in the projector lens. This prism cut down the light by about 40 per cent, forced the screen to be pushed to the back wall, and made a "hot spot" of bright light in the center of the screen...
...final sequence, she enters a German-held village disguised as a Moslem peasant, in order to procure a cache of medical supplies. There she meets her former lover, a sergeant of the occupation forces. She reveals herself to him and he implores her to give up her collaboration and return to the German side and the rationality of her past life. She cannot forsake the dying men on the other side of the river, but declares that after this last act of merciful contrition towards the unattainable standard of humaneness, she will return. It is a tragic attempt...
...interest them except the growing Crimson point total; but this was no small consideration to those who remembered last year's de bacle. A series of 15-yard penalties may have cost the Crimson a couple of extra touchdowns, and it was particularly vexing to have a fine punt return by Don Gerety called back...