Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brighter & Brighter. By piling up the total number of applications, the ghosts tend to distort the demand for higher education. But the demand is nevertheless there-and it has already begun to change the whole sociology of U.S. higher education. With more and more students to choose from, the big-name campuses are becoming more and more selective. At Harvard the number of students on the dean's list has gone up from 27% before World War II to nearly 40%. Indeed, says Amherst Dean of Freshmen Eugene...
...report, Pusey cited the fact that each year the percentage of students on the Dean's List has grown with 40 per cent of all undergraduates achieving this rank. He emphasized "This is not to say that there are brighter or abler students in college now than there were five year ago. The relevant point is that the proportion of exceptionally intelligent in each class is greater than ever before in Harvard's history." Taking this into view, Pusey added, "It would be a serious error for the Faculty now to devote its energy to preserving an earlier standard which...
...Spanish, economy could not look brighter," bragged Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco in his annual New Year's message last week. "Many apparently great nations envy us." There was, he conceded, a crisis just at the moment, but that was merely the "natural" result of economic expansion and would soon be straightened...
...year), he found a $60-a-week job with Western Electric and began saving his money. Soon he concluded that this job didn't fit his talents either, quit it and tried to land a better-paying one-and failed. Then he had a much brighter idea. "Maybe I wasn't thinking straight," he told the cops, "but I made up my mind that I would rob a bank. I thought I'd manage to get about $2,500. That much would get me through one year of school...
Today the Oberoi chain sprawls over India, Kashmir and Pakistan, has 1,715 rooms, 4,500 employees, a yearly turnover of 355,000 guests. Profits (before taxes and depreciation) jumped to $1,250,000 last year from $950,000 in 1954. Oberoi believes that the future is even brighter. By 1960 the growing flood of tourists will require another 1,200 rooms in New Delhi alone. In the rest of India, hotel keepers will have to double the number of rooms...