Word: starting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...younger generation is more tolerant than its parents: only 17% of those in the 21-to-39-year age group would not vote for a Catholic, though 31% of their elders (50 and older) would still refuse. But any Catholic presidential candidate must still start with a handicap of one voter out of every four against...
...Clues. Dr. Segal first discovered that slugs have an extraordinary biological clock that runs true for a whole year. Wild slugs regularly start laying eggs about the first of August. By 1958 Dr. Segal had a whole second generation of slugs that had no experience of any environment but the laboratory. He kept all his slugs under artificial light for eleven hours a day and controlled the temperature and humidity. Thus they were cut off from any clues they normally might get from nature-changes of air temperature or length of the day. But the laboratory-bred slugs produced their...
...construction, up nearly $400 million over last year to $2.9 billion in April, also reached a new record of $10.7 billion in the first four months, largely helped by a 29% rise in home building over last year. Federal Housing Commissioner Julian Zimmerman predicted 1,284,000 new housing starts in 1959 v. 1,201,000 in 1958, but private builders were more optimistic. The National Association of Home Builders estimates "conservatively" that the industry will strike a 1,300,000-start year...
...that is a fine program!" exclaim the American students and immediately start to divide up into groups...
...what am I supposed to do about it?" objected David Egger. "If I don't think that way, who is going to look out for me? Go into politics? No, our politics are a dirty business. Of course, I ought now to really start thinking about a job. It I don't, who is going to feed...