Search Details

Word: coste (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Co-operative House Will Open in September | 2/27/1959 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harris Attacks GOP For Inflation Policies, Weak Defense Effort | 2/26/1959 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Med School's Library Given $3.5 Million | 2/24/1959 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Voices Across the Land | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dun Quixote | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

Previous | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | Next