Word: assignments
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Ente Sila had prepared a list of all peasants eligible for land. Beneficiaries must not own more than ten acres. Expropriated land had been charted according to productive value. Plots had been rearranged to make each nearly equal to the others in productive possibilities. They were to be assigned by the peasants' drawing lots on appointed days. The lot-drawing had won unanimous peasant approval. "Man is imperfect," observed one villager. "Only luck can assign each man the right piece of land. Only fortune can know what is best for each man in the future...
First, it recommended that if a student was drafted after having completed ten weeks of a half-curse, he should have the right, provided he could give two week's notice, to ask his professor to assign him a special paper or exam, on the basis of which he might receive credit for the course...
...money to start it, Hecht formed Parents Institute Inc., and got a $325,000 grant from the Laura Spellman Rockefeller Memorial Fund by agreeing to assign control of his company to four universities (Yale, Columbia, Iowa and Minnesota). The odd partnership gave canny Publisher Hecht academic alliances which brought an impressive array of famous educators to Parents' masthead as "advisory editors." It also brought the schools a golden flow of income from Parents and a handful of new magazines. By 1949, when Publisher Hecht finally bought up control of Parents Institute, the colleges had already taken out substantial profits...
Besides William James and Richards Halls, which provides almost 200 new rooms, McLoughlin's office had additional space to assign in Perkins Hall, two floors of which were used by Law students last year...
...House bill gave the President almost all he wanted-power to requisition goods and facilities, assign priorities, control credits, make loans up to $2 billion for production of war materials-and some things he did not particularly want -stand-by power to establish at his discretion wage and price ceilings, order rationing. The bill would also penalize hoarders with a maximum $10,000 fine and a year in jail...