Word: interest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interest that these little-known fields hold has aided this growth, he said. However, he pointed out that there is a scarcity of books, even in Far Eastern languages, dealing with these subjects. Also, competent teachers are lacking. Because of these difficulties, students are often afraid to enter what Reischauer termed a "frontier situation...
...fact that 32 more undergraduates have enrolled in the language courses this year than in 1957 shows, he felt, that College students are "stepping beyond the point of general interest." Even sophomores are joining non-Western social science and languages courses, without having to "justify it to themselves," as they would have had to 15 years ago, Reischauer said...
...rise was viewed without alarm by the nation's bankers. The A.B.A. found that the increase has not brought any decided boost in interest rates since June. Even though the prime rate on business loans has been raised to 5%, most banks said that they were keeping installment rates at about the same levels as early in the year. The Chase Manhattan Bank, in its bimonthly letter, also saw no danger in the increase in installment loans. Although the rate of installment credit is growing faster than in 1955, said the Chase Bank, consumer income is now larger. Despite...
...Vieillard, then an adding-machine-company engineer. He bought the patent rights to a type of punch-card machine, which had been willed to Oslo's Cancer Institute by Norwegian Inventor Fredrik Bull. With only $140,000 in capital, Vieillard soon needed more financing, sold a 70% interest in the company to the wealthy Callies family (paper mills), closely related to the Michelin and Citroen family. With new capital, the company plunged into research, soon turned out a tabulator capable of writing 150 lines a minute when other tabulators were only half as fast. During the war its engineers...
...major source of interest in Statistics, according to Pratt, would be as part of a combined field involving social relations, biology, economics, mathematics, geology, psychology, medicine, or others. He said a request was received from a student last spring to concentrate in Statistics and linguistical mathematics...