Word: spans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This Harvard experiment has for its precedent an interesting bit of research which was carried out in England. Drs. P. H. S. Hartely and G. F. Liewellyn investigated the records of the life span of the crews of Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England for a 100-year period...
...athletics shorten one's life span? Does rowing hurt the heart? These questions have only partly been answered by modern research...
Over the whole period (100 years), the life span of the oarsmen was much longer than the average life expectancy. The non-oarsmen were all healthy men accepted for life insurance...
...classics they hear there as comparative fluff. Last month when they heard Harpsichordist Yella Pessl play a lick of swing on a harpsichord broadcast, they turned away their dial in horror. Asked why they prefer 18th Century to all other music, they reply: "It makes us feel spiritually spick & span...
...tremendous complications of the problem, there are emerging some clear-cut and comprehensible issues. The crux of the matter might now be stated as follows: The Administration is persisting in its general policy of creating associate professorships only when there are predictable vacancies--over a certain span of years--in the full professor bracket. In accordance with this policy, ten assistant professors were released last spring, since no positions higher up were seen to be open for them within the next ten years. This action was taken in spite of the fact that several of the men were widely admitted...