Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Population by Slide Rule...
...fortunate enough to have been one of the audience at the Rockwell Cage when Dr. Vannevar Bush made the statement you quoted.* I sincerely hope he is right in his optimism, but the slide rule he used for his computations must have slipped quite...
...Adam and Eve started [populating] about 4,000 B.C. and had been reasonably fertile, if we had had a 10% increase per generation, we would now have-unless my slide rule slipped-a population as densely packed as this auditorium, leaving out the aisles. It would cover the entire earth, deserts and oceans 15 layers deep...
However, those who do concentrate in the field--and there are exceptions to the department's rule--will find that the courses deal with the languages, the history, and the culture of the Near Eastern Moslem and Jewish countries...
Those who "share our faith in majority rule" are "natural allies," he said...