Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major departure from the old system is a one-hour essay which will be more factual and specific than the rest of the examination. According to Taylor, this is intended to insure proper coverage of a student's individual field, and there will be a wide choice of topics...
...controls. To keep wages in line, they abolished the old system of pegging salaries to the cost-of-living index-though to compensate France's poor for increased food costs they decreed a 5.5% raise in the minimum wage. And by the removal of import quotas on a wide list of products. France's manufacturers would be exposed to so much foreign competition that it would be difficult for them to raise prices. Had these measures of "truth and severity" been proposed by anyone but De Gaulle, France would surely have been in for a vicious round...
...investigators' recommendations for eliminating these bedside cesspools are formidable: put ice-cube makers in microbe-free areas, bag the ice mechanically and store it at 20° F.; dispense ice with tongs; use wide-mouthed carafes, of types that can be sterilized with heat, and have skilled help do this job daily in the diet kitchen. The researchers note wryly that hospital personnel spend hours figuring out just what quantity of fluids a patient gets-so why" not pay a little attention to the quality...
...house's interior immediately suggests the unusual. There are nineteen oddly proportioned rooms within this seemingly small frame. The rambling corridors are somewhat analogous to the canals of Venice. They become alternately wide and narrow as they wind. They lower a few steps, then rise a few steps. They give way to an immense hall when one least expects it, and to a glass-encased balcony which is still stranger and more intruiging...
...Warren mystique reaches far and wide. At this point even book salesmen ask to see the trap-door and the room where Kittredge, Lowes and Bliss Perry once examined. Visiting chairmen of other English departments return to see the house which gave birth to their scholarly careers. Everyone agrees that something intangible contributes to making Warren House the indispensable institution it has become. Perhaps one professor best summed it up in quoting Santayana's description of Concord: "External humility and inward pride." ir?-, iohkRCcotkle