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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Priestley is the man who scored another overtime goal almost exactly a year ago to beat Harvard, 6 to 5, in the Arena...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Basketball Team Wins; Sextet Bows to Brown | 12/14/1949 | See Source »

...best example of the opposite trend. Before the war, Fine Arts averaged 2.7 percent of all concentrators; for the past three years it has averaged .9 percent, a decline to one third its former size. But it has nine full and associate professors, just as it did ten years ago...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: Faculty Allocation System Ignores Popularity Trends, Favors Consistency, Long-Range Plan | 12/14/1949 | See Source »

...over 250 gifts for immediate use flowed into the Medical School, and the 1949-1950 total received a big boost only two weeks ago when the American Cancer Society added $100,000 to previous grants. But it's all a paradox. In too many cases, a gift received actually sinks the Medical School further into debt...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

Another whose profit-sharing plan increased workers' efficiency was Jewel Tea Co. Started 25 years ago by Jewel's Board Chairman John M. Hancock, onetime adviser to Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, the Jewel plan provides for joint pension contributions plus profit-shares from management amounting to 15% of net earnings after dividends. To some employees it has paid off an average return of 55% on their original contributions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Every Worker a Capitalist | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...Moreno, seemed thoroughly pleased with the proceedings. Next, a girl acted out an unpleasant experience of two years ago, when she had needlessly hurt her father's feelings with something she said. When she had finished, the doctor told her to go through it again only correcting her errors this time. "How many of us do not wish we could re-enact something in the past and do it right? Psychodrama gives that opportunity. You see, we started out this afternoon with caricature and now we warm up and have some very tragic psychological problems presented...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE WALRUS SAID | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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