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Word: droppings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Houses are not planning to deconvert next year, and will maintain their current level of one extra man for every two. Even counting on the enrollment drop, they can take less than half of the freshmen class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houses Will Take Only 40 Percent of Yardlings | 3/19/1949 | See Source »

...first, time since the war, House contracts will be for a full year instead of a term. This will make it harder to switch rooms or roommates in February, though not impossible. The change was bright about by the drop in February graduation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houses Will Take Only 40 Percent of Yardlings | 3/19/1949 | See Source »

...economic crosscurrents, no one was certain how great the shakeout in prices and jobs might be. But the next two months, usually marked by a spring pickup, would tell the tale. Businessmen would then know how much of the slide had been seasonal-and how much a permanent drop of the boom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two-Way Spiral | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...Provost's figures. This year, with a two term average of 7100 students in the College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the total revenue from tuition and fees will be about $3,700,000. Next year, with an estimated enrollment in these schools of 6250, a drop of about $200,000 at present rates would occur; and in 1950-51, when the College is down to 4300, a further cutback would be in prospect. In addition, nationwide inflation and continuing commitments for permanent Faculty salaries and other educational projects have increased the financial pressure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The $600 Question | 3/8/1949 | See Source »

...slight drop in prices which was recovered within 24 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President and Politics | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

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