Word: conservee
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The Faculty refused to close the College on ten legal Monday holidays declared by Washington to conserve fuel. The deans of New England colleges met on February 9 with federal officials to dissuade them from plans to completely close all colleges.
Not all of the sacrifices were voluntary. An acute coal shortage gripped New England in the harsh winter of 1917-18. Harvard undergraduates suffered numerous measures to conserve fuel, finding the New Lecture Hall padlocked, the Junior Dance indefinitely postponed, and Widener Library closed on Sundays--the plight with which...
Its reluctance to raise its own discounts and add more upward pressure to housing costs results in a rush to dump loans on Fannie Mae. The association's resources get swamped, and it is forced to curtail purchases just when they are needed most to sustain housebuilding. When Fannie...
In a way it was typical that when Charles Lindbergh made his first public appearance in a decade, he chose one of the nation's farthest reaches. Lindy, now 66, was in Juneau to address the Alaska legislature on a topic touching him deeply: the need to conserve the...
"We are the party of change," said Harold Wilson at last week's 65th annual Labor Party conference in the Channel resort of Brighton. "We seek not to conserve but to transform society." The 1,200 delegates had no idea that before the day was finished the Prime Minister...