Word: credited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Seymour Harris came up with a plan of his own, after concluding that every Harvard student would eventually join the Brahmins. Harris calculated that a college student would make $100,000 more than a non-college student, and could therefore afford to buy his education on credit, on a sort of learn now, pay later, basis. When speculation arose as to how he had arrived at the magic figure of $100,000, it was rumored that he had divided the annual Gross National Product by the number of Harvard students, and subtracted an odd number of Yalies...
...supplying the Communists with credit to buy capital goods, the West would be putting another nail in the coffin of freedom. It would 1) permit a Communist industrial speedup that would enable them to beat (with their usual subsidies) Western bloc quotes in export markets hitherto untouched by them; 2) free more money for the U.S.S.R. to lend at less-than-cost interest rates to uncommitted neutrals, thereby winning favor and using them up economically. Yes, trade with the Communists, but restrict the goods to food and consumer items...
...Halleck has all but promised it; at a time when taxes are climbing at state and local levels, big-spending Democrats might be held responsible for knifing the cut. If the Democrats go along with the budget -and if it does balance as promised -the Republicans can claim the credit...
...bedroom oratory, and a speech to a mass rally of 600,000 Cubans, reached wide to justify the summary trials and executions: "They are much fairer than Niirnberg." For the present, Castro said, only Batista henchmen with more than six murders to their credit would be dealt with -"The criminals that we shoot will not number more than 400. That is more or less one criminal for each 1,000 men, women and children assassinated in Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
Lampoon officers and old Fortnightly members scrambled last night to take credit for the Saturday parody of the CRIMSON by the Harvard Yearbook staff...