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...with college life, the undergraduates quizzed most nearly agreed when 93.1 per cent of them favored a pre-marital blood test. Over 85 per cent favored R. O. T. C. training in colleges, and over three-fifths thought that sex education courses should be made compulsory, an almost identical fraction desiring the abolition of compulsory class attendance...
...through National Savings Certificates and short-term Defense Bonds, which have been selling merrily in the Kingdom to the tune of almost ?1,000,000 ($4,000,000) per day. Still under debate inside and outside the Government is the plan of Economist John Maynard Keynes to appropriate a fraction of all wages, "save" them for the wage earners until after...
...Cover) Only a fraction of British man power-less than 1,000,000 men-is in uniform...
Heavy atoms like uranium had been chipped before, but not cracked in two. Moreover, the most effective agents for splitting or "fission" of uranium were "slow" neutrons with initial energies of only a fraction of one electron-volt, so that the energy profit from one fission was enormous...
...Saunders found a good reason why violinists prefer to play the old instruments. The reason: they are easier to play. Through some mysterious process inherent in aging, the violin becomes mechanically more responsive-it begins to "speak" a fraction of a second sooner when force is applied to the strings. Dr. Saunders experimented with a motor-operated machine which bowed the violins by elastic celluloid disks in such a way that the force required to produce a singing tone could be measured. In the old violins the force required was slightly less...