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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basis of 1946 death rates, the U.S. Public Health Service announced last week, the average white woman's life expectancy is 70.3 years, that of white-men, 65.1.* The margin of difference between the races has been narrowing since 1900, but the average life span of non-whites is still much lower: for non-white women, 61 years; for non-white men, 57.5. General U.S. average is nearly 67 years, which is one year longer than in 1945, two years longer than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Going Up | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

Almost to a man, students have decried the breakneck pace at which this course plummets through its thousand-year time span. Unlike mathematics and physics, literature cannot be drilled into the mind by the numbers, so many lines per poet, so many poets per week, and so many literary periods per month. Since the reading covers almost everyone who has written a book in England since 800 A.D., and since the grades depend greatly on an ability to identify spot passages and supply a few facts about the authors, most men will never remember anything more than a few trite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quality, Not Quantity | 5/1/1948 | See Source »

...their conquerors of three years ago. Occasionally, there sounds the discreet rustle of wax paper as a representative of the people unwraps his brown bread sandwich, neatly folds the paper and tucks it back in his pocket for future use. The linoleum floor beneath their feet is spick & span because this group has nothing with which to litter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Bear of Berlin | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

Prior to yesterday's move, the 18-girl Council had agreed to restrict temporary political groups in the Yard to a six-month span of activity, in anticipation of a quick November fadeaway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Sets New Chartering Policy | 4/23/1948 | See Source »

With fewer than half the 921-girl student body voting yesterday afternoon, balloting on the issues raised at the meeting has been extended to span vacation week. Final votes will be gathered during the week of April 5, and official results will be released before April 10. A majority of the entire college must vote for any proposition to pass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Mass Meeting Draws Much Discussion, Few Votes | 3/26/1948 | See Source »

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