Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most important, however, is the fact that costs have risen greatly and that investment returns, which made up 64 percent of Harvard's income in 1845, today amount to only 26 percent, Currently, tuition comprises 22 percent, and "gifts for immediate use" account for another fifth...
...Indecisions. By contrast, the impassive Communists appeared united, tough and confident. The appearance was significant because international conferences frequently turn, not so much on the skill of the particpants, as on the common assessment of the prevailing realities. Does the West's gloom at Geneva accurately take into account the realities of the two great blocs...
...which seldom looks a gift source in the mouth, took a long, hard look at Composer Ilgenfritz' operas and at its red-inked account books. Last week the board of directors announced its decision. The operas are competently written, said a spokesman, but "under the circumstances and as a matter of policy, the bequest should not be accepted...
Citation: "You have crowned your career by leading a group of able lawyers in eliciting from the Supreme Court of the United States a direct, unequivocal, sweeping and unanimous decision to remove the stigma and blight of segregation on account of race and color from American public education...
...began his work, two important things have happened to Leonard Cheshire. Arthur, his first patient, was a Roman Catholic, and when it came time for him to die, Cheshire dug out a Catholic book: One Lord, One Faith, by Vernon Johnson, an Anglican minister's strongly partisan account of his conversion to Roman Catholicism. In the early morning hours after Arthur's death, Cheshire read it through and knew that at last he had found the authority he had been looking for. "After the war," he says, "I'd go to one Church of England priest, then...