Word: surprisingness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It is not at all surprising that a largely secular and materialistic society should reject the Rev. Lester Roloff and his belief in biblical discipline because his ideas are not popular in our permissive world. In this society it is more reasonable to electrocute a man than to discipline a...
More resistance to speed limits is likely, as researchers examine some surprising consequences of the new slowdowns. Thus far studies have shown that in France and West Germany fewer traffic fatalities occur on high-speed superhighways than on restricted side roads. Moreover, experts now concede that the gas saving realized...
South Korea is far from being a model democracy. Yet compared with their compatriots in the North, South Korea's 37.5 million citizens enjoy a surprising amount of freedom to worship, travel, work where they choose, and even to speak their minds. In the past few weeks, Park has...
The distribution of millionaires around the country is uneven and sometimes surprising. As might be expected, the largest numbers are in the key business centers-New York (about 51,000), California (33,500) and Illinois (31,100). In terms of density, the millionaire population averages out to 2.36 of every...
According to medical folklore, one way of conceiving male babies is to restrict intercourse to specific days in the menstrual cycle. But which days? Now a study of Orthodox Jewish women at Jerusalem's Hebrew University has produced a clue. Tallying up the sex of 3,658 babies born...