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Theses/Dissertations from 1957
A consideration of The knight's tale, Frank Morgan Jr
Breakfast habits of seventh grade boys and girls in Cleveland, Mississippi, Lizzie Belle Moses
A study of burlesque in Fielding's fiction, Nancy C. Mullin
Parallels between the Japanese traditional house and the American contemporary, Malcolm Souter Nichols
Nominal compounds in Lysias' orations / by Patricia Frances Paden, Patricia Frances Paden
William Faulkner's Sartoris and Snopes : a study in tradition and anti-tradition / by James Harvey Smith, James Harvey Smith
Tishomingo county, 1836-1860 / by Mary Floyd Sumners, Mary Floyd Sumners
A study of some factors influencing water vapor sorption in tempered presdwood / by Walter Cliftin Thompson, Walter Cliftin Thompson
The attitudes of high school students toward law enforcement officers : a comparative study, Vernon Lanier Watson
The alkaline rearrangement of chalcone oxides, Darthon Vernon Wells
Theses/Dissertations from 1956
A polarographic study of beryllium, Robert Edward Adams
Chaucer's religious attitudes as displayed in the Canterbury Tales, Atlanta Cox Ashby
Statistical analysis of performance in elementary mathematics in Greenwood (Miss.) city schools, Hester Christine Boyd
An analysis and evaluation of piano teaching methods, Charlene H. Breazeale
Vinylogs of useful medicinal agents, Hugh Burford
The role of the evil woman in the plays of Shakespeare and of Beaumont and Fletcher, Leslie Everett Burris
Variable behavior in anxious and non-anxious subjects, Thomas Patrick Caffey Jr
Pharmaceutical and cosmetic applications of carbopol 934, Phyllis M. Caver
The Curie temperature of an alloy of nickel and beryllium, Richard Forrest Collins
Congress and racial attitudes before the New Deal, Rodes Currie
The preparation of some vinylogs of some physiological active agents, Durward F. Dodgen Jr
The effect of different feeding experiences on variability and learning in chickens, Harold William Faeth Jr
The synthesis of thyroxin analogs, Robert M. Friedenberg
The externality of William Butler Yeats, David Slate Goforth
Synthesis and dehydrohalogenation rate studies of potential synergists for DDT, Robert T. Kemp
United States relations with Spain during the American civil war, Lee Boone Kennett
Techniques for changing food selection habits of nursery school children, Verda Johnson Laws
The average chords of certain plane figures, James Bennett Lewis
Retention of interview information, Jirō Nakazawa
Variable behavior in adjusted and less adjusted subjects, Willis Cullen Nowell
An analysis of research on leadership, Howard Ray Phillips
The first Carlist war in the third series of the Episodios Nacionales of Benito Perez Galdos, Gerald Swetnam Pierce
A study of the life and letters of Julie de Lespinasse, Isabel Roberts Pullen
A study of money management practices of selected rural familiesin Pontotoc county, Mississippi, Martee Breland Rayburn
Poetic and religious theories of John Crowe Ransom applied to his poetry / by Charley LaFayette Sandifer, Charley LaFayette Sandifer
Jacobians of certain transformations / by William Thomas Sharpe, William Thomas Sharpe
Amperometric titration of nitrocatechols / by Charles Howard Smith, Charles Howard Smith
A synoptic analysis of an approach to the study of the development of the speech and hearing profession in the United States / by Frances Scott Smith, Frances Scott Smith
A study of admission test scores as predictors of performance in Freshman chemistry / by Shirley Allen Smith, Shirley Allen Smith
A study of economic and business vocabularies of some students in selected high schools in Louisiana / by Irma Riser Vance, Irma Riser Vance
Methods of financing secondary school music activities in Tennessee (1956) / by Robert Lindsey Vaughn, Robert Lindsey Vaughn
Theses/Dissertations from 1955
A comparative study of cortical potentials of stutterers and non- stutterers under normal reading and delayed speech feed-back conditions, Paul Michael Baccaro
Negro voting in Mississippi, James Franklin Barnes
The Oxford Eagle as seen from its files, 1883-1950, Jack Burrage
The summation of certain series, James C. Cantrell
Social Factors Related to Attitudes Toward Church Consolidation: Ecru (Mississippi) School District, 1952, George Mack Coaker
Elliptic geometry for the high school student, Katharine Wardwell Kimball Coe
The Circulant Quadric, Arthur Edwin Dean
The circulant quadric, Arthur Edwin Dean
The villans in the novels of Charles Brockden Brown, Edna Earl Edwards
Development, operation, and application of a servomechanism operated lathe, Richard Henry Gould
Origin, development, and fate of Sardis Reservoir plankton, Earl Lee Hanebrink
Interpretation and use of correlation, Naomi Joann Hawkins
The alkaline rearrangement of p,p-dimethoxy-benzylidene-(aceto- 1-c4-phenone oxide, William Evan Hill
Comparison of Dutch and American kitchens, Margriet Hofman
A comparison of the women in the novels of Willa Cather with those in the novels of Ellen Glasgow, Pauline Holladay
Homemaking practices of former Yocona Vocational High School students, Forrest Turnipseed Johnson
Federal income tax changes made by the internal revenue code of, Charles Stanley Locke
A study of the sorption of water vapor by standard hardboards, Robert Roy Marriam
Caracteres femeninos de Romulo Gallegos : Barbara, Adelaida y Marisela, Numancia Martinez
The influence of mechanistic natural law on eighteenth century and present-day economic thought, Henry Ellis Mattox
Truth-tables and functional completeness in the two-valued and many-valued logics, Richard H. Mohler
Hoover, Congress, and the war debts, William Curtis Nabors
A comparison of Lizardi's Noches Tristes Y Dia Alegre and Cadalso's Noches Lugubres, Guy Roberts Phillips
Statistical interpretations of some testing results, Meredith Poole
Dormitory room lighting practices and obstacles to improvement, Enola Crothers Porter
Annals of the theatre in Lafayette, Louisiana, 1920-1940, Beverly Primeaux
Der Freischuetz--The first romantic opera, Esther Punnett
William of Toulouse and the defense of the Carolingian West, James Thomas Randolph
Observations on the birds of Spring Lake State Park / by Walter Henry Rose, Walter Henry Rose
Moralizations of Fernan Caballero / by Glenna Sawyer, Glenna Sawyer
A proposed lighting unit for the high school level / by Eloise Hale Scott, Eloise Hale Scott
Circulatory arrest / by Guy P. Sharpe, Jr, Guy P. Sharpe Jr
Some adjustment problems of a selected group of adolescent girls/ by Elizabeth Henderson Shockley, Elizabeth Henderson Shockley
A survey of the pyrogen content of hospital distilled water / by William Bryson Swafford, William Bryson Swafford
The thermal decomposition of calcium sulfate between 750-1 by Francis M. Tkacik, Francis M. Tkacik
The Southern Reporter, 1885-1930 / by Ida Faye Todd, Ida Faye Todd
A study of the water-vapor sorption of tempered hardboards / by Joseph Casimar Trinastic, Joseph Casimar Trinastic
A survey of certain aspects of the music program in the secondary schools in Tennessee with an emphasis on scheduling, Max Clarence Weaver
Civil defense for Mississippi schools, Lloyd Fleming White
Theses/Dissertations from 1954
The estimation of expenditures for public assistance payments in Mississippi July 1, 1954 - June 30, 1956, Lane Van Hook Bailey
Browning's answer to higher criticism, Lillian R. Bickerstaff
Lamartine's Italy, 1811, Alfredo Luigi Brigola
Some potential medicinal agents derived from aralkyl ketones, Samuel B. Britton
Potential medicinal agents derived from aralkyl carbonyl compounds, Henry C. Caldwell Jr
The viscosity of binary mixtures, William James Cartmell
The helminth parasites of the dogs of northern Mississippi, witha review of those of North America, Russell Kenneth Carver
Amounts and kind of foods eaten by nursery school children, Margaret Jeanette Collier
Speed and variability of crank turning as a function of non-reward and interference, Lois Cummings
Public policy toward levee construction in Mississippi along the Mississippi river, Polly Ann Davis
The development of the concept of inflation in American economicliterature, Jaak Franz R. De Maeyer
Continued fractions and their applications, James S. Dorroh
The basic motivations of Shaw's major male characters, Widowers' houses through Heartbreak house, Colleen Fly
The influence of novelty on choice-point behaviour in the rat, William Irwin Gardner
Bartok's fourth quartet : a stylistic analysis, Alfred Garmhausen
A study of the hydrolysis of titanium (IV) : The extraction equilibrium, Kenneth Irvin Hardcastle
Retention as a measurement of interest in photographs : an exploratory study, Jere Richmond Hoar
Some health and nutrition problems of rural families of Marshall County, Mississippi, Christine F. Jenkins
Cardiovascular dynamics in response to occlusion of the pulmonary artery in the intact animal, Arthur W. Lindsey Jr