Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undeniable that there has been a vast improvement in Harvard's housing for undergraduates as compared with the situation 25 years ago. But since the Houses are overcrowded and tremendous pressures to admit more students are certain to break over us as a result of increased population, it is quite clear that a major problem, involving considerations both of enrollment and housing, is relentlessly up before...
None of his colleagues backed McDonald on this scheme. Free-trading commissioners feared that to propose it would be to admit that tariff cuts actually would hurt home industries. Protectionists ridiculed it, for it struck at the heart of their arguments: by automatically compensating for damage to industry, the only valid reason for tariffs is removed. Gene Milli kin called it "government trying to play the Deity with our economic system." Such statements overlooked some figures computed by the U.S. Labor Department: each week 300,000 newly unemployed workers apply for jobless insurance; but cutting all tariffs in half would...
...Reds in the unguarded camp at Panmunjom were not quite men without a country: the Communist world had refused to admit them (see FOREIGN NEWS), but as far as they knew...
Released when Chiang Kai-shek negotiated a nonaggression pact with Russia in 1937, Chiang Ching-kuo was put in charge of rehabilitating a big district in Kiangsi which had been under Communist rule, and of reindoctrinating its 3,000,000 inhabitants. Even his detractors admit he was outstandingly successful. During World War II he ran a training school for political officers in Chungking. In Shang hai in 1948 he directed the drive to stabilize the gold yuan ; hundreds of black marketeers were arrested. His enemies say dozens were summarily executed...
...Whale-Mouthed Whirlybird. A two-rotor military helicopter big enough to carry three jeeps or 26 fully equipped infantrymen was demonstrated for Marine Corps brass by Sikorsky Aircraft Co. A pair of clamshell doors swing wide to admit passengers or cargo through a whale-sized mouth. New features: retractable landing gear to cut air resistance, a five-bladed front rotor (the rear rotor has four blades). Speed: better than 150 m.p.h. Name: XHR2s...