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...undergraduates who are candidates for the Bachelor of Arts degree this February balance against the 127 men returning from leave of absence to depress total enrollment below last term's highwater mark of 5600. No new men have been allowed to enter this term...
...result? The principal complaints came from, makers of pottery, watches, handmade glassware and lace; and from the cattle industry. But, according to State, those U.S. enterprises have not really been hurt by lower tariffs. Cattlemen, for example, complained that during 1936 a shipment of Canadian cattle had depressed the Minneapolis market. State countered that large cattle shipments frequently depress markets, locally and temporarily; a shipment from South Dakota might have had the same effect...
While the purpose of the stage is not solely to entertain, it is also not to depress, embarrass, or mystify, as so many of the extremely outre productions of local theater groups have done. The Veterans Theater Workshop last week went through the motions of a play that was not only nebulous and long, but literally a poor piece of writing. The Harvard Dramatic Club, running in a flying wedge behind a superbly ingenious press-agent, managed to fill the house for a production whose only scintillating features were its novelty and its fig-leaf...
This development did not seem to depress the delegates in the least-even though their governments had spent $250,000 to give the college a global air. Hunter was not really big enough. Already, Secretary General Trygve Lie had a line on a likely spot for U.N.'s next visit-the spacious, glass-bricked, $18 million Sperry Gyroscope plant at Lake Success, Long Island...
...kind. I will be 60 next year. I don't think I have the qualifications. This is the time when young people must plan for the future . . . they've got to live it." Suggested a reporter: "But your gloomy view of being 60 is going to depress a great many people." Retorted the First Lady:. "Oh, I adore being...