Word: evener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today students are passing up even greater opportunities than the men of a few years ago, for unawarded money is turned back into the principle of the prize funds, and the awards increase...
...President Truman or Congress, the President said in March that "a soundly conceived Federal scholarship program in our colleges and universities is a necessary step" in giving American youth the highest possible level of training. The ideal of getting those two million qualified people into colleges is obviously desirable, even though a project of this great scope would be bound to raise problems here and at almost every college in the country...
...came even more important points, recited another third higher in pitch. The speaker stated that this organization was actually a tool of the Harvard School of Public Administration--a bunch of professors. Boos, and deeper mutterings. "They even have Radcliffe girls passing out campaign literature," he closed. A crescendo of boos, mutterings and threats from the audience followed...
...Europe, at least on a short-run basis. Europe, partially due to war damage, partially to technical immaturity, can produce neither as cheaply nor as efficiently as the U.S. This means it cannot trade with us in a particularly equal give and take footing. But this situation is even further aggravated by the myriad trade barriers and currency controls still stretched onto the containment; these restrictions are actively preventing what Hoffman calls the "resumption of normal healthy trade...
...food situation, very little has been changed. There have been no major revisions in the dining hall setup. The poorly prepared food remains to plague student stomachs. And although there were a few innovations in equipment this summer, as official sentiment stands now, large-scale reforms are not even being considered...