Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...November 8, the people will choose a mayor, a city council, and a school committee. Five candidates are in the race for mayor, only three of which are serious contenders. For the School Committee, nine persons are seeking two positions, while the grand total of 87 contenders are fighting to represent the 22 wards in the city council...
Dennison attributes the rise of the jalopy star to the informal atmosphere of the track and the increased number of accidents resulting from bigger and more cars and the fact that all the drivers are amatures. There are a few turnovers every evening, but since they hardly ever involve serious injury and since most of the spectators know at least one of the drivers it makes good entertainment...
...Higher education is facing the most serious financial crisis in its history," Seymour E. Harris '20, professor of Economics asserted last night...
...pregnant women [TIME, Sept. 5] . . . has led a number of women to feel that if they were pregnant patients of mine they would be happy, but fat. Preferring not to be fat, they would not care to be patients of mine, and this, as you can well understand, is serious. Nowhere in your story could I find anything to ... explain, as was proved in my original article, that despite free-feeding, the average gain and the average retained weight after pregnancy is the same as the accepted standards...
...Unless a revolution in attitudes of college-trained men and women is forthcoming," Harris warns, "the occupational downgrading of college trained personnel will have serious social and political effects. A frustrated intelligentsia, as European experience suggests, is a large political liability...