Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edward S. Mason, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, described over-population as a "terribly serious problem," one that cannot be solved adequately without some measure of birth control. Representatives of the Catholic Church have argued recently that alternative measures would prove adequate...
...tons of sand, took a year to complete, and cost $1,000,000. The race itself, which runs only nine minutes on the screen, ran three months before the cameras and cost another million. Three months before the shooting stopped, Production Manager Henry Henigson had a serious heart attack, and two weeks later Producer Sam Zimbalist had a fatal one. By the time the cameras had finally stopped rolling, MGM's London laboratories had processed, at a cost of $1 a foot, some 1,250,000 feet of special, 65-mm. Eastman Color film...
Despite the rising popularity of shareholding, the new army of dividend receivers suffers from serious disadvantages compared with former years. For one thing, it costs more and more to get on the dividends list. From 1950 to 1959. rapidly rising stock prices cut the average yield to a new buyer of the stocks in the Dow-Jones industrial average from...
...United States, while developing weapons of ultimate destruction finds them useless in small but persistent situations. "It is irresponsible to rely on atomic warfare in defense," he concluded. As a solution Kissinger suggested that "if we are serious in avoiding nuclear war, we must build up our conventional forces...
...help the students to develop their culture outside of the classroom," Duroselle commented. "Another difference is fostered by the competitive examinations which French students must pass at various stages in their education. Only a small percentage pass these exams and are allowed to continue in school. Therefore, the serious French student has to reject dancing, going to the moving pictures, and so on. There is more of a struggle to pass than in this country. Here the struggle takes place after the university years...