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Because these military calls have made such a small dent so far, it is unlikely that the University will soon return to such emergency measures as midterm graduations and summer terms. But the University may undertake more scientific projects for the Navy...
...because these military calls have made such a small dent so far, it is unlikely that the University will soon return to such emergency measures as midterm graduations and summer terms. But the University may undertake more scientific projects for the Navy...
...television industry expected, summer brought a slight dent in its selling boom. But television's biggest producer, Radio Corp. of America, last week decided that the off season was just the proper time to push its sales all the harder. As it brought out a new line of 18 models, priced $40 to $200 lower than its previous sets, RCA announced a whopping advertising program, estimated at $20 million. This week, in the Sunday editions of 40 U.S. newspapers with a combined circulation of 10,760,000, RCA will launch its campaign with 12-to 16-page inserts...
...home town (if a man failed to get drunk at least three or four times a year, he "could hardly maintain his standing in the community, or in the local churches"). But Lewis shows that Grant himself was no habitual drunkard. Married after the Mexican War to Julia Dent, a Missouri plantation belle and the love of his life, Sam Grant was soon separated from her by Army transfer to the gold-struck Pacific Coast. There, among raging prices and get-rich-quick schemes, he saw his hopes of sending for his wife and children dwindle as one spare-time...
...drawings on display proved the Lancaster, Pa. tobacconist's boy to have been among the nation's top moderns. In his lifetime Demuth was much admired by a small circle of artists, critics and collectors. But Demuth (rhymes with see tooth) never made much of a dent on the public...