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Theses/Dissertations from 1973
French-Indian Relations (1672-1701): An Economic, Political and Military Study, James Duncan Biggs
Die Einwirkung des Jugendstils auf Rilkes Frühwerk, Linda Collins Blumenthal
Thomas Hardy : a Study; Suffering, Human Will, and Grace in the Major Novels, Russell E. Borland
Between Words and Actions: the Problem of Motivation in Symbolic Interactionism, Robert Scott Broadhead
Effects of Semantic Associational Strength and Verbal Sequence Length on the Auditory Comprehension of Aphasic Adults, Laurel J. Brown
The abolition of capital punishment: a comparative study, Michael L. Call
Family Variables Which Are Associated With Achievement of Community Tenure by Persons Released From Psychiatric Hospitalization, Thomas Mack Chambers
An Investigation of Handedness and its Relationship to the Site of Contact Ulcers, Colleen S. Colleary
Student Perceptions of the Chemawa Alcohol Education Center, Carol Colley
Spatial variations in the intra-urban response to a noise source, Wilbur David Conder
A Descriptive Analysis of a Metropolitan Foster Parent Population as an Indicator for Recruitment, Elizabeth Connet
Color Perception in Golden Mantled Ground Squirrels, Robert F. Cooley
Selected attitudes and perceptions of adolescents at the Hood River, Oregon, attention home, Marilyn Czerwinski and Linda Olson
Counseling Problems that Accompany the Diagnosis of Mental Retardation, Betty Daggett, Shirley H. Durkheimer, and Abigail M. Lawton
The sasswood ordeal of the west Atlantic tribes of Sierra Leone and Liberia: an ethnohistoriographic survey, Sarah Louise Davies
A Descriptive Follow-up Study of 21 Children from Parry Center, Paul Duke
Synthesis of Uranium Fluorosulfates and the Group VI B Difluorophosphates, Larry McCain Emme
Recent Developments in the Use of Precast Concrete Units for Buildings in the United States and Iran, Khosrow Ebadi Farshchi
Indians and Criminal Justice in Early Oregon, 1842-1859, John Samuel Ferrell
Two Delivery System Contexts for the Elderly:The "Institutional" Approach and the "Community" Approach., Mary Sarita Freer
Identifying and Defining Natural Service Delivery Systems, James R. Garrison and William J. Teverbaugh
A Follow-up Attitudinal Study of Selected Groups in the City of the Dalles Toward the Community Attention Home, Landon Gilstrap, Joyce Larson, and Janice Page
Sickle Cell Anemia : a Psychosocial Study of Attitudes and Effect, Sharon Ann Goddard and Marian Genita Gilmore
An Evaluation of a Graduate Social Work Training Program at John Adams High School, George E. Hall and Guy H. Lutz
A study of the effect of drug use on the Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory, Mary Ellen Hammons