Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sherwood soon came back because of "certain pressure that was exerted on University officials." This time he stayed here long enough to write two Pudding shows and to direct the destinies of the Lampoon, he said; he was about to have his connections severed again when he joined the Canadian Army. (He was too tall to join the A.E.F...
...censors by exhibiting a miniature outhouse and describing it as his "office." But such clear-cut cases of bad taste are not the only problem. Raymond Nelson, director of Du Mont's Fashions on Parade, points to color as one difficulty: on the TV screen, dresses of certain shades of red make a girl look undressed. TV avoids negligees, slips, nightgowns and foundation garments-even on dummies. "No matter how you look at it," says Nelson, "a wax dummy on television is a nude woman in the living room...
...every 1.14 point change in the Bureau of Labor Statistics cost-of-living index.) Said G.M.'s President Charles E. Wilson: the markdown was intended to "pass along to consumers the savings resulting from both the downward adjustment of wage and salary payments and the lowered cost of certain material items...
Like a gentleman's club, the International Monetary Fund has certain rules which members are expected to observe- even when no one is watching. One rule is that no members can sell gold above $35 an ounce. This is the Fund's way of trying to insure stable currencies and exchange rates among its members. Therefore, Fund members were outraged last week when one of the brethren chucked the rules...
...tuition fee cannot be "waived" for any student; a payment must be made, either through scholarship awards, grants-in-aid, or loans. Second, Radcliffe College has no scholarship funds specially given or designated for any particular category of students, with the exception of those scholarships given for residents of certain towns. We have no funds, for example, specifically allocated for students from the Orient, Latin America, or Europe. The scholarship committee does not find itself able to set up such funds at the present time. Third, the D.P. student will be automatically considered, with other applicants, for scholarship aid, when...