Word: capita
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Latest reports showed the Yard well ahead of both the Houses and Commuters in per capita support of the drive, with Massachusetts Hall boasting a 100 percent record...
...housewife to hoarding against a possible price jump. But the first day of free trading passed without an increase, although the week before some New York grocers had to ration their more apprehensive customers. The Department of Agriculture said there was enough sugar in sight for a per capita consumption of 95 lbs. this year, 21 lbs. more than last year...
...been the pride of the picturesque college town of Charlottesville in Albermarle County, Virginia. The University glories in its distinguished founder and first rector, Thomas Jefferson, and the names of Presidents Madison and Munroe appear on the records as "visitors," 1819 equivalent of trustees. The wealthiest state university per capita in the nation, it was recently termed a collection of "rich young wastrels" by Time Magazine. More kind and accurate many years earlier was the description of the undergraduate product by Professor Archibald Cary Coolidge of Harvard at the inauguration of the first president of Virginita in 1905: "That they...
...Federal Government thought that the devil was simply the boom. "People have more money to spend," said Secretary of Commerce Harriman, "and they are bidding against each other." For example, meat consumption this year-155 lbs. per capita-is the highest since...
...Russia's defeated enemies, the Finns are paying the highest per capita reparations: $300 million, ending in 1952. But Russia, though tightening every possible screw in the treaty terms, has not sprung any surprises and has permitted the Finns, by & large, to run their own country in their own way. Under this treatment, which calls mainly for hard work, the industrious Finns have thrived...