Word: four
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...week, "when we as a nation must request some form of universal national service from all our young men and women . . ." To clear the way for general inductions at 18, the top policy body of New York's public school system recommended that high schools pack their standard four-year courses into three. Suggested expedients: wider use of summer classes and, "in some instances," heavier study loads during regular semesters...
...student council), Moderator (president) Stewart Washburn spoke up: "We accept women. There is nothing wrong with women as such. But they are going to necessitate a great number of annoying practical adjustments." St. John's was making a beginning at such adjustments by assigning one of its four dormitories for the use of the expected newcomers...
...Early, who had been filling in since the death of Charles G. Ross (TIME, Dec. 18), bowed out with a little quip. Said Early, now a vice president of Pullman, Inc.: "If it was [a job as] a dollar-a-year man, I figure the President owes me about four and six-tenths cents...
...areas of Europe and the East, where general health conditions are at their worst, the International Tuberculosis Campaign, jointly sponsored by several U.N. and Red Cross organizations, has injected some 14 million people with the TB vaccine. Their fond hope is that the vaccinations have cut tuberculosis morbidity* by four-fifths. Only time and a careful check on the health of a whole new generation will prove...
...Basketball Coach Adolph Rupp would like, but there are other states: each year dozens of slat-shaped aspirants from all over the U.S. trek to Rupp's office in Lexington, many of them at their own expense, to try out for Rupp's team. The 1948 crop (four Kentuckians, eight outlanders) was particularly potent; it won the national championship, and its starting five went on to the U.S. Olympic squad and later to professional careers. Last year, hurt by graduation, Rupp rebuilt. This year, with big (7 ft., 215 lbs.) Bill Spivey as a firm foundation...