Word: austin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Registration stations for members of the University other than undergraduates will be as follows: for Law School students and Faculty, at Austin Hall, under Livingston Hall, professor of Law and Vice-Dean of the Law Faculty as senior registrar...
...compliment either to the virtues of Jane Austin's book or the maturity of Hollywood that "Pride and Prejudice" has maintained its integrity on its perilous journey from paper to film. It appears on the screen as a startling and refreshing example of a picture that clicks without having resorted to the run-of-the-mill movie formulas...
Henry S. Thompson, '99 of Concord, was elected president. Other officers are Austin W. Scott, vice-president; Walter Humphreys, secretary; and Horace S. Ford, treasurer. These men are in office for one year...
Cherubic, soft-voiced William Lane Austin, director of the Bureau of the Census, met newsmen in the long, hot conference room of the Department of Commerce Building and made public his figures. Total population of the U. S. as of April 1, he announced, was 131,409,881. To his report of last spring's painstaking national nose count, he had few remarks to add. Chiefly he wanted to focus attention on what he considered the Census' most striking fact: from 1930 to 1940 the U. S. had shown the lowest rate of increase in population...
...before the Civil War. Since 1880, the decennial rate of increase has declined. Predictions were that the country would reach a static population in 1970-80. Census figures last week bore out the prophecy. The rate of increase in 1920-30 was 16.1%; in 1930-40: 7. Commented Mr. Austin: "We don't have enough babies and we are not building up with immigration from abroad." To many this fact had ominous implications. In the past, population growth has gone with national prosperity. Many wondered whether a stationary population would mean a decline in national wealth. Observers speculated about...