Word: abbott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alumnus is referring to the actual designers of the new building--the firm of Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbott. This firm has planned much of modern Harvard including Sever Hall, all the Houses, Littauer, the Indoor Athletic Building, Fogg Museum, and the Biological Labs...
...House of Commons last week, Finance Minister Douglas Abbott announced a further fiscal tightening up. Chief items: 1) a hike in the minimum down payment on most consumer goods from one-fifth to one-third, on automobiles from one-third to one-half; and 2) a cut in the maximum credit period for installment buying from 18 to twelve months. The new restrictions are tougher than those imposed in the U.S. (where installment payments may extend through 15 months). They are also tougher, in the case of automobiles, than the Dominion's own rules at the height of World...
Despite insistent opposition demands for price and wage controls, the government stood by its argument that full controls probably would not work except in a full war emergency. When he presents the budget next month, Abbott is expected to maintain revenues well in excess of need (1951-52 estimates: $3.58 billion) and thus take more money out of circulation. He may also reinvoke the compulsory savings scheme used in World War II. Only if the fiscal brake fails will wage and price controls be tried...
Does it feel warmer lately? It should, for according to John H. Conover, Abbott Lawrence Rotch Research Fellow at Blue Hills Observatory, the average winter temperature in New England has risen three and one-half degrees during the past 100 years...
These are the worlds of a gentleman named Abbott, who is the manager of the most widely-publicized drinking the eating club in the world--Mory's Association Incorporated in New Haven...