Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said the College "is definitely losing out in its appeal to the lower income groups locally" because of the rising expense of a Harvard education, especially the high cost of paying for room and board in the Houses...
Harris said "the Administration's policy represents a cultural lag." "The Republicans have a neurosis about inflation," he asserted, "and their attempts to stop it with tight money have resulted in a recession which cost the nation $50 billion...
Medical School officials originally set a goal of $7.5 million for the building project. Miss Countway's gift will cover the cost of construction, but an endowment of $4 million on the new library will be sought...
Bell executives recently ran a test in Baltimore, discovered that telephone salesgirls sold 112% more department store goods than floor salesgirls, at a cost 51% less. They do not intend to let merchants forget it. Says A. T. & T. Assistant Vice President James V. Ryan: "We will soon launch an advertising campaign to persuade more people to shop by phone. The merchants had better get ready to handle the phone calls," i.e., install more, phones...
...Quixote the portrait of a Christian saint? W. H. Auden argues that it is, that Don Quixote sees his mission as "the World-that which needs my existence to save it at whatever cost to myself. He comes into collision with the real world but insists upon continuing to suffer [and] never despairs." When readers first meet Don Quixote, continues Auden, "he is (a) poor (b) not a knight, (c) 50, (d) has nothing to do except hunt and read romances about Knight-Errantry . . . Suddenly he goes mad, i.e., he sets out to become what he admires . . . Religiously...