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Housemaster Elliott Perkins '23 tries to diminish the gap between student and tutor. Both the House Committee and the tutors participate in running the House, and the latter' regular Wednesday lunch witt Perkins is almost unique in the house system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Scholars Revel In Dignified Traditions | 3/25/1952 | See Source »

Corruption in municipal government can never be entirely abolished, three reform experts agreed at last night's Law Forum. But they differed on the means needed to diminish existing evil in government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corruption Here for Good, Say 3 Law Forum Experts | 2/9/1952 | See Source »

Under the new stretch-out plan, aircraft builders agreed that the number of "multiple sources" ready for volume production is bound to diminish. Aircraft companies who have been farming out a big chunk of their work will probably shift more work back into their own plants. The result will probably be that some aircraft plants, scheduled to come into production, will be crossed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Clipped Wings | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

Under able Finance Minister Fritz Schaffer, employment is up, luxury taxes are stiffer. As economic inequality tends to diminish, a feeling of opportunity grows. On the streets, fewer Germans glare enviously at expensive automobiles; cheap Volkswagens, Opels and Fords are nearer the public's reach. Already, more Germans own cars than in 1936. In Bad Godesberg, a German mason carped at the new apartment houses for U.S. officials: "I wish we were that well off." Promptly two of his colleagues chipped in: "Don't worry. We will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: GERMANY: UP FROM THE ASHES | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

...finally released [TIME, May 14], although in abridged form . . . The power of the movie industry to censor, so well demonstrated in this case ... is contrary to the traditions of this country . . . The people who do such things in the name of tolerance and understanding spread anti-Semitism rather than diminish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 4, 1951 | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

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