Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next year the Hon. George Bancroft, donor of the fellowship, who was otherwise famed both as the man who ordered the invasion of Mexico and as a historian of some note, completed his donation to bring the sum of the fund to more than...
Harvard's faculty was excellent, and the students were advised to choose their courses by professors as much as by subject matter. William James was an instructor in physiology (NOT psychology), while James Russell Lowell taught English poetry. Informal discussions were initiated in order to bring the students into closer contact wit these figures...
...peculiar American institution? From my own experience, I would guess that a rather small proportion of the Harvard community knows these things and that an even smaller proportion has thought seriously about their implications. The scrubwomen case, I think, would have been an excellent occasion for the CRIMSON to bring this whole subject into the open. The result could hardly have been other than beneficial to all concerned...
Underlying the squabble about the "sudden" devaluation of the French franc is a simple economic problem. French exports necessary to bring in dollars have been priced out the market by a combination of slowed-down inflation and a tight currency exchange. To start the mills rolling again, the French Cabinet decided to cut the value of the currency...
...spot price had been 8.5?.) The big fall was due to prospects of a huge crop in Cuba, little buying by Europe and a 1948 U.S. import quota smaller than Cuba had hoped for. In a few months, after U.S. refiners had used up their stocks, the drop would bring down retail prices...