Word: c
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Washington last week came the touching news that U.S. taxpayers had been touched, in fiscal 1956, to the sharp tune of $75.1 billion-13% more than the $66.3 billion they paid in federal taxes the year before. Naturally, said Internal Revenue Commissioner Russell C. Harrington, the increase could be attributed largely to higher levels of personal and corporate income, a fact from which few could recoil or take comfort...
...masses of clear-cut light and shadow just as he saw it. The result, well illustrated by his early study of the Norman port of Honfleur (opposite), was a clear handling of geometric masses that came within a brush stroke of anticipating the discoveries made years later by Cézanne...
What sent the bids soaring was the promise of the biggest oil pool in the West, under the barren Navajo buttes and mesas. Texas Co., which had started exploring the area about three years ago, recently drilled its exploratory Navajo C-4 well on tribal land located between the big Aneth oilfield in San Juan County, Utah and another series of proven wells farther south. Texas Co. wanted to find out how far the Aneth field went and whether the two pools might be connected. Though Texas Co. tried to keep the well secret, every oilman suspected that something...
...means that a boy will definitely be accepted if he maintains his present scholastic record. A "B" classification tells a school that on the basis of existing information Harvard can make no statement on his chances of admission but will have to wait until later in the year. A "C" classification means that a boy will probably not be admitted to the College...
Harvard, Yale and Princeton all use this ranking system, and other colleges are, in effect, doing the same thing, although not necessarily on an A-B-C basis. In general, according to G. Grenville Benedict '23, dean of students at Phillips Academy, the Big Three colleges agree on the letter rank of an applicant in about 90 percent of the cases...