Word: smalleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General public opinion notwithstanding, most students here are quite normal. But the staff of the Grant Study takes exception to the old saw that normal people are the most uninteresting of the lot. In a small brick building on Holyoke Street, next to the Hygiene Department, the Study has been trying "to understand better the adjustment of healthy college people" for the past 11 years...
Dropping from 11,757 students in the University last year to the present total of 11,105, Harvard follows closely the five to ten percent decline in the larger public institutions, including all Ivy League schools. However, when the small schools are considered, the nation's college and universities show a 2.3 percent increase over enrollment figures...
...Fallen Idol. Author Graham Greene and Director Carol Reed wring suspense from the story of a small boy in a world of adult intrigues (TIME, April...
Friar's Secret. Before they had gone far, Coronado's men began to distrust everything Fray Marcos had told them. Instead of the one "small hill" that he had reported between them and Cibola, they found almost impassable mountains. Machetes had to be used to hack a way along roads he had called "good." But Marcos remained cheerful. What seemed like outrageous hardship to the tenderfoot caballeros was easy going for the hardy friar, veteran of long treks through Peru and Central America. Besides, he had his secret. The royal road to riches he had talked about back...
...Adam's Rib," as the title might indicate, has to do with whether or not there is a difference between men and women, and it moves painfully along on this material until the end. There is a difference, though a small one, admits Katherine Hepburn. "Vive la difference," shouts Spencer Tracy as he closes the curtains on the old four poster. Then everybody goes home...