Word: dearth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Members then founded the New Theatre Workshop, the original purpose of which was to present one-act plays written by Harvard authors. A dearth or original creations sent its original purpose to an early grave, but the Workshop has since become a training ground for actors, producers, and directors. It is a sort of preparatory school for major HDC productions. At present, however, Robert H. Chapman, associate professor of English, is helping the organization to return to its original purpose. He has given the members five original plays written in his English Ya playwriting course which they will consider...
...Depression has money been so tight or so costly. In the midst of industry's greatest expansion, businessmen are finding that interest rates for loans are more than half again as high (up to 6%) as they were two years ago. Home-buyers are hard pressed by a dearth of mortgage money; housing starts are down 17% from the 1955 level-For the first time since the '30s, bankers are reluctantly turning away borrowers-as many as three out of five in some areas...
...problem (not peculiar to North Carolina) has been the dearth of highly susceptible teen-agers at polio clinics or in doctors' private offices. Parents eagerly drag the moppets in by the hand, but ap parently leave teen-agers to fend for themselves. Greensboro's Dr. Samuel Ravenel, who sparked the state drive, tried to remedy this with a slogan: "Walk with Salk, so you can rock 'n' roll." Evi dently it took, because teen-agers made up about half the Guilford queues. In Gibsonville Mrs. Thomas Scoggins took in her five-month-old baby...
...blow off steam in suburban Long Island is to write a letter to Newsday (circ. 239,972), which runs readers' complaints in a special "County Irritant" column. Last month, after two teen-age girls had signed their names to a letter lamenting the dearth of summer jobs, one of the girls became more irritated than ever. She complained that after her letter appeared, a telephone caller had offered her a $65-a-week job as all-around office helper. One of the job requirements: modeling in the nude...
...never easy to press someone for payment, but if it's your job, you do it," Perry observes. University officials, noting the dearth of unpaid bills, have said that he did the job well...