Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very hard-headed economic reasons. Yet, if the quality of teaching is to rise (360,000 teachers have not gone beyond the college sophomore level) it is precisely these educated people who must be attracted and held. The states are responsible for education, but mere historical precedent cannot allow the Federal government to shirk a financial role any longer. For education, unlike bridges or garbage disposal units, cannot be used or misused by any one state isolated from the other 47. Not only do millions move from one state to another, carrying with them their educations, good...
Americans must not allow animus over British colonial failures to suggest an attitude of plague-on-your-house in the case of the present crisis. The peace of Europe is too much intertwined with the productive capacity of the British Isles for Americans to be unconcerned when this industrial potential fritters away in the face of a winter storm. If the British cannot maintain their internal living-standard, British commitments everywhere must be sealed down proportionately, and the resulting vacuum must be filled according to the power line-up of 1947, with American troops and equipment. The withdrawal of British...
...Communist in Germany but that had been many years ago. He had come to the U.S. in 1941, a poor refugee, hounded by the Nazis. Did he look like a spy? All he wanted to do was go back to Germany, but the U.S. State Department would not allow...
Somewhat inadequate to date is the teamwork of Preston and Greeley, the new starting defense. Both excellent skaters individually, they were sometimes split by Holy Cross and the B.A.A. Unicorns to allow occasional solo jaunts goalward. Should this due tighten up tomorrow, the Big Green may find themselves hard pressed...
...against tutorial can be expounded less and less in terms of manpower, it must be explained in terms of someone's unwillingness to spend the money somewhere. The departments, almost to the last, will disclaim any direct responsibility for the cutbacks and will point to budgets that will not allow for expansion in this line. The Administration, from whom all budgets flow--albeit with departmental advice--will counter with claims that once the budget is granted, each department has a free hand to go on ahead autonomously with plans for tutorial. The departments may have a free hand, but have...