Word: less
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years back, then followed the cases for five years more. In that quarter-century, the women averaged 64 illnesses, with 313 days lost from work, v. the men's 37 illnesses and 124 days lost. Menstrual disturbances could not explain this huge difference; they accounted for less than one-fourteenth of female illness. In fact, the same types of illness-respiratory infections, stomach upsets, muscle pains and skin conditions -explained most of the absenteeism of both sexes. Surprisingly, sheltered operators went to the doctor more often for cuts and bruises than did linemen...
...difference? Women, suggested Dr. Hinkle, meet less disapproval if they go to a doctor or take to bed when they feel ill. "Thus," he added, "the tendency of the American male to 'carry on, no matter what' may have something to do with the fact that women live longer...
...Rains), may have caused pressures inside the moon that made lava flow out in other places, forming other seas. The lack of seas on the far side of the moon, says Kuiper, favors this theory, since the meteor impact that dug Mare Imbrium would affect the far side less strongly...
...east to west (in a tiny de Havilland Puss Moth monoplane) ; of pneumonia ; in London. A Royal Air Force pilot while still in his teens, Jimmy Mollison went on to set a flock of post-Lindbergh records, including Australia-England (1931) in 8 days, England-Cape Town (1932) in less than 5, and, with First Wife Amy Johnson Mollison, also a headlined pilot, England-India (1934) in 22 hours (not a record...
...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 its dollar increase, the rise in installment credit equals only 1.9% of income after taxes, slightly less than the rise in 1955. Despite higher dollar auto sales this year, the net increase on auto credit after repayments on past credit will be only slightly more than half that in 1955, thus leaving room for credit expansion to buy 1960 models...