Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of these students have proved they can "grin and bear it," but with scholarships and reserve family resources denied them, others have had to find some other way out. Thus, concurrent with the expansion boom, and the cost increases, the loan program has received added emphasis. As proposed by Professor Harris, loans for financing a college education qualify as the answer for a student in any income bracket. But others, like Dean Monro, see the loan program as the answer for those in the middle income group, students caught without a scholarship. And, in Monro's words, the loan...
...wait meekly for his dismissal. Kishi cashed in on Japan's economic boom by sweeping last year's elections, and promptly edged Minister of State Kono out of the Cabinet to the party board chairmanship. Then last fall Kishi ran into heavy public and parliamentary opposition to his bill for beefing up Japan's long-feared police (TIME, Nov. 17). Though members of his own party joined in the criticism of the Premier, Kono urged him to go ahead and ram his police bill through. As the din in the Diet grew louder, Kishi saw a sweet...
...keeping up with the changes, the Bank of America has cashed in handsomely on California's tremendous postwar boom. Branches are being opened at the rate of two a month, have grown from 494 in 1946 to 638 today, scattered through 350 cities in California and abroad. Since World War II the bank has doubled its size, its business, its personnel, its deposits. Today it employs 23,500 people, offers 55 different services to its customers (7,000,000 accounts...
...other hand, as colleges face the "war-baby boom," one often hears the argument that Harvard, as a leader in American higher education, has a "responsibility to expand." Some point out that, as long as Houses are relieved of overcrowding to a tolerable degree, it will be possible to add new Houses, one by one, and expand the student body in this manner...
Down through the years, as the zing of arrows gave way to the boom of the bomb, the people who live on the roof of the world never complained about all the noise down below. All they asked was to be left alone. Except for the occasional call by Lowell Thomas or somebody looking for the Abominable Snowman, they got their wish. Down below, Hannibal and Hitler, Socrates and Sinatra flashed by; high in the Himalayas, ignorant and innocent of it all, the people went right on hunting snow leopards, dodging devils and waiting for the reincarnation of their uncles...