Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novelty, consumer credit caused no traffic jam in the stores. Reason: the hard-to-get goods in greatest demand, such as automobiles, refrigerators and TV sets, were conspicuously missing from the credit list. And lest the Russian shopper think that the consumer millennium is just around the corner, Premier Khrushchev, on his way back to Moscow from Peking, told a Vladivostok audience that the U.S.S.R. has no intention of trying to equal U.S. automobile output. "We will use automobiles more rationally than the Americans do," he said. "We are going to establish taxi pools, where people can use cars when...
...countries, attend lectures in English, French and German, are taught by German, Belgian, French, Canadian, British, Italian, Dutch, Swiss and U.S. professors. To be accepted, each student has to speak two of the teaching languages, be able to understand a third. Initially, classes are being conducted in a corner of the palace, a French national monument, but Director General Willem Christopher Posthumus Meyjes, a Dutch diplomat, expects in four years to have a new campus outside Paris. Ultimate goal: 800-900 graduates a year...
...Graduate School of Education will build a $2.5 to $3 million building on the corner of Kirkland and Oxford Streets. Dean Francis Keppel said this new structure will centralize all the school's facilities, now located in seven different buildings and frame houses...
...victim of last week's drowning, David Bachrach '59-2, successfully passed his swimming test, but with the restriction that he not use the boating facilities. This restriction was stamped in an upper corner of the white record card...
Because Bachrach nevertheless wished to row a wherry, he showed an I.A.B. coach his white card and asked to have his bursar's card stamped. However, he covered the corner of the card in such a way that the coach did not see the restriction. Consequently, the bursar's card was stamped...