Word: chunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only other sizable chunk of Littauer's student "body" is the group in the agricultural extension program of John D. Black, Henry Lee Professor of Economics and dean of American agrarian economists. Over the past five years, this program has tried to bring a little bit of Harvard influence into many of the six million farm homes in the United States. Picked from state agricultural extension agencies and financed by the Carnegie Corporation, Black's 25 or more students do intensive work in their special farm field, and also dip into the more advanced theory of agricultural economies. These academic...
...than half the Government's science bill is paid by the Department of Defense, 35% by the AEC, 6% by the Federal Security Agency and 5% by the Department, of Agriculture. All other agencies combined paid less than 3% of the total. This year, as usual, the biggest chunk of cash was spent on the physical sciences ($255 million). Second: the biological, medical and agricultural sciences ($70 million). Social sciences brought up the rear with $17 million...
Lowell led the contributions with $2,507.86. Bellboys have traditionally, given the largest chunk of the funds collected. Eliot House followed by a narrow margin, donating $2,433.85. Winthrop was third with $1,958.50, and Leverett fourth with...
Actually, the gain was not as big as it looked; some of it simply reflected bookkeeping adjustment. Last year's third-quarter profits were hit hard by Congress's big retroactive tax bite which came out of the third quarter in one big chunk. U.S. Steel, for example, set aside an added $26 million in taxes to pay the bill. It was also helped by a $5,000,000 tax credit under the excess-profits law, since this year's actual profits were below last year's. Consequently, Big Steel was able to show a third...
...most colorful and energetic parts of the production are the Raffle and If You Haven't Got a Sweetheart Ballets, where Rita Karlin dances off with a good chunk of the show. I'll Buy You a Star and Love Is the Reason are songs with catchy tunes and lyrics, but neither Shackleton nor Miss Blondell are able to display them...