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Although the present housing program has not reached its peak yet the University announced that it had provided approximately 700 family units in University developments and in addition, the Housing Office has found private accommodations for many other students in need of rooms or apartments...
Until AVCO gets into peak production, and shows that it can make money doing it, most Wall Streeters will keep their fingers crossed about its future. They are not at all sure that 1) it has lived down its past, 2) it is not now expanding too fast in peace. Nor has AVCO finished expanding...
...rush hour. In the case of supper, while the line is at its heaviest when the doors open at 5:30 o'clock, the rush has been created by just such an attempt, on a universal basis, at arriving when nobody else is eating But at breakfast, when the peak is at 8:30 o'clock, lines could be shortened considerably if the tendency to get up as late as possible was overcome by a hardly few. Similarly, lunch lines are at their longest at 12:15 and 1:15 o'clock, directly after class breaks, while lines between...
They stood in silent admiration for several minutes, their eyes sweeping the large room, and then gathered for a brief, hardly audible discussion. "And just to think," one Yardling intoned to his companion, not unlike stout Balboa, upon a peak at Darien, "all those fellows are Harvard...
...Partly a statistical illusion, because 1 ) the average age has increased, and diabetes is largely a disease of middle age; 2) deaths formerly attributed to heart disease, arteriosclerosis, etc. are now correctly diagnosed as caused primarily by diabetes. The U.S. diabetes death rate hit its peak in 1940, dropped off slightly during wartime when overeating was less prevalent...